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Burglars have used heavy cutting equipment to break into safety deposit boxes in a vault in London's jewellery quarter.

The raid is thought to have happened over the Easter bank holiday weekend at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company.

Officers from the Met's Flying Squad were called to the area at 08:10 BST.

In a statement, the Met Police said: "A number of safety deposit boxes have been broken into". They said inquiries were continuing.

Diamond jewellery expert Lewis Malka, who works in the area, said the haul was likely to amount to "hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds".

He said: "Most of the people who have got safety deposits there are people in the trade."

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-32207974
 
Jewellery worth up to £200m may have been stolen from London's Hatton Garden during a raid, a former Scotland Yard commander has estimated.

Ex-Flying Squad chief Roy Ramm said he "would not be surprised" if it was that much, although he said the figure would probably never be declared in full.

[...]

Deposit box owners will be told later if their property has been stolen.

Norman Bean, who has a diamond ring and bracelets stored in the vault said he was told the burglars accessed the vault via a lift shaft.

He said: "They went down the lift shaft, made a big hole in the wall, got into the safe deposit and I think they drilled into the boxes.

"They could have been there all weekend, who knows? It's disgrace, it's like something out of a film."

http://www.bbc.com/news/england
 
As many as 70 deposit boxes were opened during a raid in London's jewellery quarter, police have said.

The Met, which has not yet commented on the worth of the jewellery stolen, said it was "photographing the scene and recovering exhibits in meticulous detail".

BBC News correspondent Daniel Sandford said: "There is still a concern that the thieves may have had some kind of inside knowledge. For example, the brand new alarm system which had just been fitted in the building had not yet been switched on."

Neil Duttson, a diamond dealer, said tracing any gems stolen in the heist would be nearly impossible.

"Once diamonds have been re-cut and polished there is no geological map," he said.

"I imagine they will be sat on for six months. You can expect some cheap diamonds will be coming on the market soon."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-32215206
 
CCTV images showing burglars pulling off the "audacious" Hatton Garden jewellery heist have been released.

The images show three men outside Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd in central London, Scotland Yard said.

Contents of 72 safety deposit boxes were taken from the firm in wheelie bins and bags during the raid.

On Friday it emerged the Met received a call on Good Friday and were told an intruder alarm had gone off - but decided it did not require a response.

Officers are now investigating why the call was given a grade that meant no police response was deemed necessary.

Previously, Scotland Yard had said it was alerted to the burglary on Tuesday.

The full CCTV video, obtained by the Mirror, shows the men make two visits to the vault between Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

In the CCTV footage, one man outside the safe deposit building is seen pushing a wheelie bin, which the paper said could have contained the large drill used for breaking a hole through the lift shaft.

The newspaper, which published the 17-minute video on its website, said the men made a getaway in a white van. It said the van was seen pulling up shortly before 07:00 on Easter Sunday.

A source was quoted as saying the raid was the work of a professional gang who "planned this job down to every last detail".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-32263174
 
Images of the hole drilled by thieves into the vault at a Hatton Garden safe deposit company have been released by the Met Police.

Seventy-two safe deposit boxes were opened in a raid at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd in central London over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend.

In the vault, discarded safe deposit boxes, power tools including an angle grinder and concrete drills, and crowbars can be seen.

No arrests have been made.

There was no sign of forced entry to the outside of the building, the Met said.

Burglars disabled the communal lift on the second floor, then used the lift shaft to climb down into the basement.

The raiders then forced open shutter doors into the basement and bored holes into the vault wall.

Scotland Yard said they were alerted to reports of the burglary on 7 April, at 08.10 BST.

Officers are investigating why a call on 3 April at 00:21 BST was given a grade that meant no police response was deemed necessary.

The Met Police have said it is too early to say if the handling of the call would have had an impact on the outcome of the incident.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-32414531
 
The director of Hatton Garden Safety Deposit Ltd has not been contacted by police investigating the Easter vault raid, he has told the BBC.

Mahendra Bavishi, who is in Sudan, said he was willing to speak with officers but so far had not been involved with the inquiries.

Mr Bavishi said he had "no clue" if the multi-million-pound robbery could have been an inside job.

Scotland Yard said it had only spoken to relevant people in the UK.

Mr Bavishi admitted it was concerning that the thieves were so well informed.

"You know the way they entered is really surprising because if there is any vibration or even if somebody enters, if somebody tries to cut anything, all the sensors were fitted," he said.

"I don't know how they got the information," he said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32470501
 

Looks like you were right!

Detectives hunting the gang behind the Hatton Garden safety deposit raid have arrested nine suspects.

[...]

Twelve addresses in the London and Kent area were raided by about 200 police officers on Tuesday morning.

Nine men were arrested and a number of high-value items were recovered, police said. Searches of the houses are ongoing.

Scotland Yard first arrested seven men, aged between 48 and 76. They later arrested a 58-year-old man and a 43-year-old, bringing the total number of men arrested to nine.

A relative of one of the victims said those affected were "probably worse off after this morning's raids".

"With the stolen goods vanished, there was pressure on insurance companies to settle quickly to enable holders to trade again," the relative, who did not want to be identified, said.

"But now, with a whole mess of stuff to sort out, it may drag on for months.

"If batches of the stones were mixed up, it may be impossible to reunite them with their owners."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-32799703
 
Eight men have been remanded in custody after appearing in court over the Hatton Garden jewellery raid.

[...]

The men in court were:

  • Terry Perkins, 67, of Heene Road, Enfield
  • John Collins, 74, of Bletsoe Walk, Islington
  • Daniel Jones, 58, of Park Avenue, Enfield
  • Hugh Doyle, 48, of Riverside Gardens, Enfield
  • William Lincoln, 59, of Bethnal Green, east London
  • Brian Reader, 76, of Dartford Road, Dartford
  • Paul Reader, 50, of Dartford Road, Dartford
  • Carl Wood, 58, of Elderbeck Close, Cheshunt
The charge states that together, between 1 April and 19 May, they conspired to enter as a trespasser a building, namely The Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd at 88-90 Hatton Gardens EC1, with intent to steal.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-32827071
 
Four men have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to burgle in connection with the Hatton Garden safety deposit box raid at Easter.

John Collins, Daniel Jones, Terry Perkins and Brian Reader pleaded guilty at Woolwich Crown Court.

Perkins, 67, of Heene Road, Enfield, Collins, 74, of Bletsoe Walk, Islington, Jones, 58, of Park Avenue, Enfield and Reader, 76, of Dartford Road, Dartford, were arrested in May.

They pleaded guilty to conspiracy to burgle, namely to enter Hatton Garden Safe Deposit in London with intent to steal, between 1 January and 7 April.

The four men also faced a charge of conspiracy to convert or transfer criminal property, but the prosecution said they would not pursue the charge in light of their guilty pleas in relation to the conspiracy to burgle.

Five other men still face trial for conspiring to commit the burglary.

Hugh Doyle, 48, of Riverside Gardens, Enfield, north London; William Lincoln, 60, of Winkley Street, Bethnal Green, east London; and John Harbinson, 42, of Beresford Gardens, Benfleet, Essex, denied conspiracy.

They also pleaded not guilty to the laundering offence and are due to stand trial later this year.

Paul Reader, 50, of Dartford Road, Dartford, and Carl Wood, 58, of Elderbeck Close, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, are yet to enter pleas.

Mr Doyle, Mr Lincoln, and Mr Harbinson are due to stand trial on 16 November.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-34153995
 
Police investigating the Hatton Garden jewellery raid have recovered what is believed to be some of the stolen property at a north London cemetery.

The items were apparently found during a search of a burial ground in Edmonton.

Earlier, Sky News reported that a man who had admitted taking part in the raid wrote to Sky offering to reveal the whereabouts of the stolen goods.

He was escorted from prison to the cemetery to show officers where to dig.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34549707
 
One of the men accused of stealing valuables worth more than £10m from Hatton Garden's safety deposit boxes has had the charges against him dropped.

Paul Reader, 51, of Dartford Road, Dartford, was charged with conspiracy to commit burglary and conspiracy to convert criminal property.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said those charges have been abandoned.

Eight other men between 42 and 76 face legal proceedings.

One of them is Paul Reader's father Brian Reader, 76, of Dartford Road, Dartford.

Mr Reader, who has mainly been held at the high-security Belmarsh prison and has always denied any part in the burglary, was said to be angry, but pleased to be going home.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34770929
 
This would be what is referred to as a fishy alibi:

The alleged getaway driver in the Hatton Garden raid claimed he could not have taken part in the plot because he had been buying fish for Good Friday.

William Lincoln, 60, of Bethnal Green, east London, is accused in the biggest burglary in British legal history.

Up to £14m was taken from safety deposit boxes in London's jewellery quarter over the Easter Bank Holiday.

An expert told Woolwich Crown Court a mobile linked to Mr Lincoln had been located near Billingsgate Fish Market.

Mr Lincoln denies conspiracy to commit burglary and conspiracy to conceal, convert or transfer criminal property.

It is alleged the group, led by "mastermind" Brian Reader, 76, an experienced criminal, drilled into the reinforced concrete vault of the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit after workers locked up on Thursday, 2 April.

The court heard a mobile linked to Mr Lincoln was used early the following morning at about 04:40 BST in East India, close to the famous Billingsgate Fish Market.

Giving evidence for the prosecution, mobile phone location expert Kevin Weeks confirmed the position and time of the phone.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34948866
 
I think if one makes a movie analogy it should be "League of Gentleman" whose main stars are Jack Hawkins and Nigel Patrick, and several other fine British actors. About a bank robbery done by a group of ex army officers and specialists.
Also, " 11, Harrowhouse" with James Mason, which is about just this kind of robbery but with a smaller group of crooks.
 
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A man has been held and items have been seized over the Hatton Garden heist in which £13.7m worth of valuables were stolen.

The 57-year-old was arrested after a search warrant was carried out in Islington at 07:30 BST on Tuesday.

He is in custody in a police station in north London, police said.

Six men have already been jailed for their part in the raid over Easter weekend in 2015.

It was branded the "largest burglary in English legal history".

At a confiscation ruling in January the four ringleaders of the heist were ordered to pay back £27.5m or serve another seven years in jail.

Prosecutors said John "Kenny" Collins, Daniel Jones, Terry Perkins and Brian Reader - who were all in their 60s and 70s - benefited by an estimated £13.69m from the burglary.

Only £4.3m had been recovered.

Perkins died a week after the confiscation ruling at Woolwich Crown Court.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-43569546


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A man has been held and items have been seized over the Hatton Garden heist in which £13.7m worth of valuables were stolen.

The 57-year-old was arrested after a search warrant was carried out in Islington at 07:30 BST on Tuesday.

He is in custody in a police station in north London, police said.

Six men have already been jailed for their part in the raid over Easter weekend in 2015.

It was branded the "largest burglary in English legal history".

At a confiscation ruling in January the four ringleaders of the heist were ordered to pay back £27.5m or serve another seven years in jail.

Prosecutors said John "Kenny" Collins, Daniel Jones, Terry Perkins and Brian Reader - who were all in their 60s and 70s - benefited by an estimated £13.69m from the burglary.

Only £4.3m had been recovered.

Perkins died a week after the confiscation ruling at Woolwich Crown Court.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-43569546
 
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...=Feed:+Reuters/worldNews+(Reuters+World+News)
One of a gang of ageing criminals who audaciously raided a safe-deposit business in England’s biggest-ever burglary will spend more time in jail after failing to pay back over 6 million pounds ($7.6 million).
[....]
Daniel Jones, 63, was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2016, and on Tuesday he was given another six years and 287 days after failing to pay 6.6 million pounds, comprising his part of a joint confiscation order and his other assets.

“Daniel Jones gained millions of pounds of criminal cash from the Hatton Garden burglary,” Heather Chalk of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in a statement.

“The CPS showed the court that Jones had the funds to pay back his ill-gotten gains and today we have successfully argued that his default sentences should be activated.”

Jones, along with other gang-members Brian Reader, John Collins and Terry Perkins, were given a joint confiscation order of 6.4 million pounds, plus extra sums dependent on their personal circumstances.

Perkins died in jail in February, and the CPS said that it would take steps to recover funds from his estate.
 

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