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Hatton Garden heist: Man arrested and items seized | |
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A man has been held and items have been seized over the Hatton Garden heist three years ago in which £25m worth of jewellery was stolen. | A man has been held and items have been seized over the Hatton Garden heist three years ago in which £25m worth of jewellery was stolen. |
The suspect, aged 57, was arrested after a search warrant was carried out in Islington at 7:30 BST on Tuesday. | |
Six men were jailed in 2016 for stealing items from the vault of the now defunct Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd. | Six men were jailed in 2016 for stealing items from the vault of the now defunct Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd. |
The raid was branded the "largest burglary in English legal history". | The raid was branded the "largest burglary in English legal history". |
At a confiscation ruling in January the four ringleaders of the heist were ordered to pay back £27.5m or serve another seven years in jail. | |
Prosecutors said John "Kenny" Collins, Daniel Jones, Terry Perkins and Brian Reader benefited by an estimated £13.69m from the burglary, but only £4.3m had been recovered. | |
Disguised as workmen, the raiders entered through a lift shaft and used a heavy duty diamond-tipped drill to cut a hole through the vault walls, big enough for two men to squeeze through. |