In April 2015, Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, an underground secure storage facility in London's Hatton Park area, was robbed. The stolen total may have a value of up to Ã, Â £ 200 million, and the incident is referred to as "the biggest theft in the history of English law."
The robbery was planned and perpetrated by four elderly men suffering thieves, all of whom pleaded guilty and sentenced to prison in March 2016. Four other men were also tempted on suspicion of involvement; three were found guilty and sent to prison, while the fourth was cleared.
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Pencurian
Thieves work through Easter weekend Easter Holidays and Passover vacations, when many nearby businesses (many of them also connected with Hatton Garden jewelery trade) are closed. Police first announced that the facility had been robbed on April 7, and a report based on CCTV footage stated that the attack on the facility began on 2 April. The theft was so significant that the investigation was assigned to the Flying Squad, the branch of Specialist, Organized & amp; The Economic Crimes Command in the London Metropolitan Police Service.
There was no visible sign from the entrance forced into the place. It was reported that robbers had entered the place through a lift shaft, then drilled through a 50cm thick metal wall with a HILTI DD350 industrial electric drill.
On April 8, press reports appeared speculating that a large underground fire in adjacent Kingsway may have begun to create a diversion as part of Hatton Park theft. The London Fire Brigade later stated that the fire was caused by an electrical fault, with no signs of burning.
CCTV footage of the incident was released by the Daily Mirror before the police released it. The video shows people dubbed by the newspaper as "Mr. Ginger, Mr. Strong, Mr. Montana, Gent, Tall Men and Parents".
On April 22, police released photographs inside the vault showing damages caused by robberies, and how robbers used holes drilled in dome walls to pass through the main vault doors.
On May 19, the Metropolitan Police announced that nine arrests had been made in connection with their investigation of the attack.
On September 1, 2015, Aman Hatton Safe Storage Company was liquidated because the business had become bankrupt due to "dry trade" as a result of the theft.
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Timeline
- On April 1, 2015, the power lines under the sidewalk on Kingsway were on fire, causing serious disruption in central London. The fire continued for the next two days, with a flame coming out of the manhole cover from the main gas blast, before it was extinguished. Several thousand people were evacuated from nearby offices, and several West End theaters canceled the show. There is also a substantial disruption to the telecom infrastructure.
- 2 April: 21:19 staff locks doors for Easter weekend
- April 2: 21:23 "Mr. Ginger" goes down to the vault, followed by three men who pull up the garbage basket
- April 3: 00:21 police at Scotland Yard notified that burglar alarm has been triggered
- 3 April: 08:05 gang members talking before going to van and driving away
- April 4: 21:17 "Mr. Ginger" falls into the vault, and then joins the other two men
- April 5: 06:10 gang members leave the building
- April 7: Scotland Yard says they are aware of robbery
- April 10: The Daily Mirror releases CCTV footage
- May 19: Metropolitan Police announces that they have arrested nine suspects
- March 28, 2018: Another man arrested
Capture
On May 19, 2015, the 76-year-old Brian Reader, previously involved in laundering Brink's Mat robbery, was arrested in connection with a robbery by Flying Squad officers.
In November 2015, Carl Wood, William Lincoln, Jon Harbinson and Hugh Doyle were all accused of conspiring to commit to robbery and conspiracy to conceal, alter or transfer criminal property. The theft was described as "the biggest theft in the history of English law."
On March 28, 2018 Michael Seed, 57, was arrested after his home in Islington, London was ransacked. He was charged with conspiracy to steal and conspiracy to conceal or disguise criminal property.
Punishment
On March 9, 2016, at Woolwich Crown Court, three gang members John "Kenny" Collins, Daniel Jones and Terry Perkins, were found guilty of conspiracy to robbery and each was given a seven-year prison term.
Carl Wood and William Lincoln were found guilty of the same offense as well as one conspiracy charge for hiding, altering or transferring criminal property, after a trial. Lincoln was also given a seven-year sentence, and Wood was jailed for six years.
Hugh Doyle was found guilty of hiding, altering or transferring criminal property. He was jailed for 21 months, suspended for two years.
Finally, the culprit, Brian Reader, was sentenced to six years and three months in prison on March 21, 2016.
The eighth man, Jon Harbinson, was found innocent and discarded.
In January 2018, John "Kenny" Collins, Daniel Jones, Terry Perkins and Brian Reader during the foreclosure decision at Woolwich Crown Court had to pay a total of Ã, 27.5 million pounds or face another seven years in prison. Perkins died in prison in February 2018, just a week after the decision.
On television and movies
Robbery is one of the main features of the American investigative science-TV web series, the White Rabbit Project , released on December 9, 2016. The program sees presenters investigating and demonstrating the methods used in this theft as well as displaying a re- which is dramatized. It's featured in the first series, episode five, "Heist!".
A four-part mini-series, Hatton Garden, starring Kenneth Cranham and Timothy Spall, will air on ITV starting December 11, 2017, but has been postponed until 2018.
The Heist is also the subject of two films, Hatton Garden: The Heist from 2016 and The Hatton Garden Job (aka One Last Heist ) from 2017 The third film, King of Thieves , starring Michael Caine and Ray Winstone, is in postproduction.
See also
- Antwerp Diamond Heist - dubbed "the robber of the century". The thieves stole loose diamonds, gold, and other jewelry worth over $ 100 million.
- Baker Street Robbery - 1971 robbery of a storage box from a bank in Baker Street, London.
- Schiphol Airport's diamond theft - took place on February 25, 2005 with an estimated EUR75 million ($ 118 million) stolen.
- List of lost property
References
Further reading
- Tom Pettifor, Nick Sommerlad, One Final Occupation: Extraordinary Life Brian Reader, the Most Proxific Thief in England (Mirror Books, 2016)
- Wensley Clarkson, Sexy Beasts: The Inside Story of Hatton Park Heist (Quercus Edition, 2016)
- Nigel Cawthorne, The Great Diamond Heist - The Exciting Real Story of Hatton Park Robbery (2016)
External links
- The Hatton Garden Massacre at met.police.uk
- Hatton Park Works at bbc.co.uk
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