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Four men have pleaded guilty to involvement in the Hatton Garden heist in which a gang broke into a concrete vault and ransacked valuables held in scores of safe deposit boxes. | |
John Collins, 74, of Islington, north London; Daniel Jones, 58, and Terry Perkins, 67, both of Enfield, north London; and Brian Reader, 76, of Dartford, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to burgle with intent to steal. | |
A total of nine defendants appeared in court, including two who have yet to enter pleas. | |
Hugh Doyle, 48, of Enfield, north London; William Lincoln, 60, of Bethnal Green, east London; John Harbinson, 42, of Benfleet, Essex, denied conspiracy to burgle and are due to face trial on 16 November. | |
All seven who entered pleas denied a second charge of conspiracy to conceal, disguise, convert or transfer a quantity of jewellery and other items between 1 April and 19 May. | |
The crown said it would not be pursuing the charge against the four who had admitted conspiracy to burgle in light of those pleas. | |
Paul Reader, 50, of Dartford, and Carl Wood, 58, of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, are yet to enter pleas. | |
The nine defendants at the hearing sat in a dock behind a Perspex screen, flanked by 13 security guards. The judge asked prosecutor Philip Evans to make sure he spoke into a microphone so the accused could hear the proceedings. | |
The burglary in Hatton Garden over Easter weekend is believed to have led to around £10m-worth of jewels, cash and other valuables being stolen by a gang who bored a hole through a thick concrete wall to enter the vault in the heart of London’s diamond district. | The burglary in Hatton Garden over Easter weekend is believed to have led to around £10m-worth of jewels, cash and other valuables being stolen by a gang who bored a hole through a thick concrete wall to enter the vault in the heart of London’s diamond district. |
During the heist the gang rifled through 72 secure boxes. | During the heist the gang rifled through 72 secure boxes. |
Detectives investigating the heist believe they have recovered most of the stolen valuables. | |
Police were alerted to the burglary just after 8am on Tuesday 7 April, after the Easter holiday weekend, during which time the facility was closed. Detectives and forensic experts were confronted by a chaotic scene, with dust, debris and discarded safety deposit boxes scattered throughout the vault. | |