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Learn about the 2015 heist of a London vault that contained £14 million worth of jewellery and gold, carried out by six elderly men. Find out how they planned, executed and were caught for the largest burglary in English legal history.
Apr 24, 2024 · Where are the Hatton Garden robbers? During the Easter weekend in 2015, elderly raiders ransacked an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden, which is known as the...
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Jan 14, 2016 · The Hatton Garden raiders were dubbed "Dad's Army" on account of their advanced age and many had extensive criminal records going back decades. BBC News takes a look at the men behind the...
- Brian Reader
- Terry Perkins
- Danny Jones
- John ‘Kenny’ Collins
- Michael ‘Basil’ Seed
- Carl Wood
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The oldest member of the group aged 77 at the time of his sentencing, Brian Reader has become the face of the Hatton Garden heist, played by Sir Michael Caine and Larry Lamb in films based on the crime. While Reader was known as a mild-mannered, unassuming sort of man, he was deeply entrenched in the criminal underworld and had previously done time...
Terry Perkins celebrated his 67th birthday on the weekend of the Hatton Garden job, exactly 32 years after he’d taken part in another gigantic Easter raid: the £6 million armed robbery of a London security depot. Perkins was handed a 22-year jail sentence for that one, but absconded from open prison in 1995 and managed to evade re-capture until 201...
Aged 61 at the time of sentencing, Danny Jones was known as one of the more eccentric villains in the London underworld. According to one court testimony, Jones ‘would go to bed in his mother’s dressing gown with a fez on’and had a penchant for having human conversations with his dog. Jones also had an extensive criminal record, including a 1982 co...
Kenny Collins was 75 when he was given his seven-year sentence for the heist. A career criminal with fraud and robbery convictions going back to the 60s, Collins took reconnaissance trips to the jewellery district in the lead up to the operation and acted as lookout man as the others broke in. It was later said he’d fallen asleep on the job, a clai...
Known for a time as ‘The Ghost’ because he evaded police the longest, ‘Basil’ Seed was finally banged up in 2019, three years after his partners in crime had been put away. Seed was very much the odd man out of the group, being relatively young (58 when jailed) and from a genteel middle-class background (his father was a leading Cambridge Universit...
Two of the Hatton Garden burglars actually pulled out of the raid halfway through, for fear of being caught. One was the ringleader Brian Reader, and the other was a more junior member of the team, Carl Wood. He was a veteran villain who’d done time in the early 2000s for conspiring with corrupt coppers to kidnap and assault a money launderer. Howe...
Learn about the pensioners who pulled off one of the most lucrative heists in British history in 2015, and how they were caught, sentenced and confiscated. Find out the fates of the gang members, from the mastermind Brian Reader to the odd man out Michael Seed.
Mar 15, 2019 · Michael Seed, 58, was the mystery ringleader who disabled the security system and looted 73 safety boxes in London's diamond district in 2015. He was found guilty of conspiracy to burgle and hide the proceeds and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
May 7, 2015 · The gang behind the Hatton Garden raid of 56 safe deposit boxes has "ruined the lives" and livelihoods of some of its victims, a loss adjuster has said.
Jan 14, 2016 · How a team of elderly criminals planned and executed a £14 million raid on a jewellery vault in London, and how they were caught by a series of blunders and a secret camera. The Independent reveals the target, the plan, the job, the gear and the investigation behind the heist.
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