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Hatton Garden raid: Nine men arrested in north London after multi-million pound robbery


Scotland Yard today arrested nine men in connection with the multi-million pound Hatton Garden heist.



In a series of dramatic raids Flying Squad officers burst into addresses in north London and seized seven members of the alleged robbery gang behind the Easter bank holiday raid.

Two other men - aged 58 and 43 - were later arrested to bring the total number held to nine, Scotland Yard said.

Officers earlier recovered what they described as a “significant amount of high value property” which is believed to have been stolen from the safe deposit company.

All of the seven held in raids in north London are British, Scotland Yard said.

The seven men arrested during this morning's raids are aged between 48 and 76. Around 200 officers were involved in morning raids of 12 addresses in London and Kent.

Those held are aged 48, 50, 58, 59, 67, 74 and 76.


The Met said :”A number of large bags containing significant amounts of high value property have been recovered from one address. Officers are confident these are items stolen during the burglary."

The dramatic operation came just over six weeks after a gang staged the audacious robbery at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company and escaped with around £60 million in diamonds, cash and valuables.

The robbers cut through a 20in thick concrete wall to get into the vault holding the safety deposit boxes they plundered.

In a raid likened to the Hollywood film Oceans Eleven the gang disabled a communal lift in the office building and scaled down the lift shaft to reach the basement vault.





There was speculation that the raid was carried out by an Eastern European crime gang and that it involved inside knowledge.

Today Commander Peter Spindler, head of serious and organised crime, described the police operation leading up to the arrests as “highly complex.”

Hatton Garden raid: Nine men arrested in north London after multi-million pound robbery - Crime - News - London Evening Standard

You've got to hand it too these old boys.
10/10 for effort!
Probably get a few years in an open prison.
Old school...

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

Probably get a few years in an open prison.
Old school...

Life for a few of them.

Modern day Nobbing Hoods, robbing the rich foreigners who invaded their land.
Pickeys in Dartford were prime suspects.

Will be interesting when the coppers catalogue the recovered goods,bet it will be like most robberies with safe deposit boxes,a lot of loot that the owners did not declare.
Some will be taking big hits on their assets.

All those years working in construction finally paid off?

Brian Reader and his son, Brian Reader Jnr, were among those nicked. Brian Reader Snr is a well known South London villain who helped dispose of the gold bullion from the Brinks Mat robbery in 1983 together with Kenneth Noye. Noye is currently serving a life sentence for murder.

These guys are scum. Nasty, brutish and utterly venal.

Flying squad nick pensioners in worlds biggest heist!

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

All those years working in construction finally paid off?

Lovely machining job. Shame that a lot of the old trades and skills are dying out.

Great job they did pity they hid the loot in there homes.

Ayslum what you fail to mention is Hatton garden is full of Jewish crooks.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Brian Reader and his son, Brian Reader Jnr, were among those nicked. Brian Reader Snr is a well known South London villain who helped dispose of the gold bullion from the Brinks Mat robbery in 1983 together with Kenneth Noye. Noye is currently serving a life sentence for murder.

These guys are scum. Nasty, brutish and utterly venal.

Originally Posted by taxexile

Flying squad nick pensioners in worlds biggest heist!

green owed

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

Hatton Garden raid: Nine men arrested in north London after multi-million pound robbery...

The youngest of em is apparently from Dublin...just a young nipper aged 48.
Out soon Martin Scorsese's new movie - "Auldfellas"...

Diamond Geezers or should that be Diamond Wheezers

Originally Posted by reddog

Will be interesting when the coppers catalogue the recovered goods,bet it will be like most robberies with safe deposit boxes,a lot of loot that the owners did not declare.
Some will be taking big hits on their assets.

I am not sure what the protocol is in these sorts of crimes. It may well be that confidentiality is preserved and the Inland Revenue are not provided with information arising from police investigations. If the losers all declined to come forward to identify their property then a prosecution will obviously be severely hampered.

The ironic feature though of safety box thefts is that villains often use the facility. I should imagine this current gang will have annoyed quite a few in the gangster world and I wouldn't be too surprised that it was from this quarter that information was supplied as to the likely perpetrators' identities.

Stupid theft, really, too big and too much to dispose of.Not many are capable of fencing that quantity and quality of goods and the usual suspects list is quite short. Too many snouts looking to enhance their own positions too. And of course, competing gangs are always alert to the prospect of ripping off a portion of the proceeds.

God knows what they were thinking of in hoping to get away with this blag.

The old temptation,, one last job and then we can all retire happily.
I swear honey this will be the last, trust me.
What can go wrong ?

The funny thing is , nobody I know feels threatened by these boy's, they didn't rob the poor, Me a piss poor Pom, they left Me and My Family alone,they only robbed the rich counts that has been robbing us poor of our resources for melenium.

Originally Posted by wasabi

they didn't rob the poor

amazing eh ?

Reminds me of the 1971 Baker street bank robbery......bet there was some 'interesting material' in those safety deposit boxes... bet someone is already thinking 'movie rights'

A jury has been shown the moment the Hatton Garden heist - the largest burglary in English legal history - began as passers-by watched on oblivious.

CCTV footage captures a white van pulling up outside the premises on a busy street in central London at around 9.22pm on Thursday, April 2, Woolwich Crown Court heard.

Burglars, dressed in hard hats and high-vis jackets, then get out and begin unloading bags, tools and wheelie bins and ferrying them down to a fire escape, the jury was told.

This continues for several minutes as several bystanders pass within a few metres, including one man who appears to almost bump into the men.

The court has heard the gang spent the Easter bank holiday weekend breaking into Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd and stealing loot including jewellery, stones and precious metals worth up to £14million.

Four men have pleaded guilty to their role in the raid.

Hatton Garden trial: Moment largest heist in history began - as passers-by watch on oblivious - Mirror Online

Five men have been jailed for up to seven years for the £14m Hatton Garden safety deposit box jewellery raid.



Three ringleaders behind the heist in London's jewellery quarter during Easter 2015 each received seven years.
Two other men, Carl Wood and William Lincoln, were given six and seven years respectively.
The mastermind, Brian Reader, was too ill to attend after a second stroke and will be sentenced later.
Sentencing them, the judge said: "The burglary at the heart of this case stands in a class of its own."

The ringleaders jailed for seven years each for conspiracy to commit burglary after pleading guilty last year were:
John "Kenny" Collins, 75, of Bletsoe Walk, Islington, north London
Daniel Jones, 61, of Park Avenue, Enfield, north London
Terry Perkins, 67, of Heene Road, Enfield.
They each said "thank-you" to the judge as they sat down.
Wood, 59, of Elderbeck Close, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, and Lincoln, 60, of Winkley Street, Bethnal Green, east London, were sentenced for the same offence and one count of and conspiracy to conceal, convert or transfer criminal property, after a trial.
'Audacious burglary'
Hugh Doyle, of Riverside Gardens, Enfield, received a suspended sentence after he was found guilty of concealing, converting or transferring criminal property between January 1 and May 19 last year.
Speaking outside Woolwich Crown Court, Doyle said he felt "relief that it's nearly all over... And I just want to spend some time with my family now and I've got boilers to fit in north London.

Gang of men sentenced for Hatton Garden raid - BBC News


Seems a bit harsh for a commercial burglary, the film will be an anti-climax

Seven years should just about see most of them out.

Originally Posted by bobo746

Seven years should just about see most of them out.

Soi Cowboy in a wheelchair or crutches ?

home in 2 1/2

The OP article states that they "escaped with goods worth £ 60 Million" , then on 26/11 posted article "up to £ 14 Million".
That is quite a variance. I surmise the Flying Squad was unable to provide an account for all of the 'reported missing goods' or the insured box-holders were full of shyte.

Whatever...sounds like they knew exactly which safe deposit boxes to bust into.
If they busted 100 boxes that is either £ 600,000 or £ 140,000 per box. Obviously it would be veeeery difficult to fence that amount of jewelry and diamonds.
Must have been a Honus Wagner baseball card or Lady Di's soiled undies in there.
(I'll apologize in advance if anyone takes offense at my last remark.)