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| Hatton Garden gang ringleaders ordered to pay £27.5m | |
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| The four ringleaders behind the Hatton Garden raid must pay a total of £27.5m or serve another seven years in jail. | The four ringleaders behind the Hatton Garden raid must pay a total of £27.5m or serve another seven years in jail. |
| John "Kenny" Collins, 77, Daniel Jones, 63, Terry Perkins, 69, and Brian Reader, 78, were ordered to pay the money back during a confiscation ruling at Woolwich Crown Court. | John "Kenny" Collins, 77, Daniel Jones, 63, Terry Perkins, 69, and Brian Reader, 78, were ordered to pay the money back during a confiscation ruling at Woolwich Crown Court. |
| The gang stole goods after drilling a hole in the wall of a vault at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit in Easter 2015. | The gang stole goods after drilling a hole in the wall of a vault at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit in Easter 2015. |
| The raid has been branded the "largest burglary in English legal history". | The raid has been branded the "largest burglary in English legal history". |
| Judge Christopher Kinch QC said the men jointly benefitted from an estimated £13.69m worth of stolen cash, gold and gems. | |
| The breakdown of the amounts ordered by the judge in the confiscation ruling on Tuesday are: | The breakdown of the amounts ordered by the judge in the confiscation ruling on Tuesday are: |
| It is thought two thirds of the valuables remain unrecovered. | It is thought two thirds of the valuables remain unrecovered. |
| Collins, Jones, and Perkins pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary and were each jailed for seven years in 2016. | |
| Reader, who was too ill to attend the initial sentencing, was later jailed for six years and three months. | |
| Carl Wood and William "Billy the fish" Lincoln, 60, of Bethnal Green, east London, were given six and seven-year sentences respectively for the same offence as the rest of the gang, as well as one count of conspiracy to conceal, convert or transfer criminal property. | |
| Wood, 60, of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, has already ordered to pay more than £50,000. | |
| Plumber Hugh Doyle, who helped the burglars, was ordered to pay £367.50 for his "general criminal conduct" at the court on Tuesday. | |
| Doyle, of Enfield, was convicted in 2016 of providing access to a yard where goods from the raid could be moved between vehicles. | |
| The judge said Doyle, 50, had not received any benefit, payment or reward for his participation in raid, but that he had been deemed to have benefitted £27,194.44 from the proceeds of a "criminal lifestyle". | |
| He said Doyle had "limited assets" and ordered him to pay the sum within 14 days. |