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| Hatton Garden heist: 57-year-old man arrested and items seized over 2015 raid that saw £25m in jewellery stolen | Hatton Garden heist: 57-year-old man arrested and items seized over 2015 raid that saw £25m in jewellery stolen |
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| A man has been arrested over the Hatton Garden heist three years ago which saw £29 million-worth of jewellery stolen from safety deposit boxes. | |
| A Scotland Yard statement said officers investigating the 2015 heist arrested a 57-year-old man on Tuesday on suspicion of non-residential burglary. | |
| The suspect was arrested by Flying Squad, the branch of the Metropolitan Police which investigates commercial robberies, after a raid was carried out at an address in Islington. | |
| "A number of items were seized from the address," Scotland Yard said. "The man currently remains in custody in a north London police station." | |
| The audacious heist was carried out over the Easter weekend in 2015, when a gang ransacked 73 boxes at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit after using a drill to bore a hole into the vault wall. | |
| Valuables worth millions of pounds, including gold, diamonds and sapphires, were taken. | |
| Nine people were convicted and jailed for their roles in the raid, one of the biggest in British history. | |
| Another thief, known only as Basil, was said to remain at large. He was instrumental in helping the gang get into the vault in the heart of London's diamond district. | |
| Additional reporting by PA |
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