Hatton Garden heist gang 'benefitted from £13.6m' worth of stolen loot

Only £4m worth of the loot has been recovered, some of it from a grave in north London after police were alerted by Paste BN.

The gang drilled through the wall of the vault
Image: The gang drilled through the wall of the vault
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Five of the Hatton Garden heist gang "benefitted" from £13.69m of stolen loot, a court was told.

Three of them accepted the figure, but two will dispute it during a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing, Woolwich Crown Court heard.

A judge will have to decide how much each gang member must pay back or serve longer in prison in default of payment.

Prosecutor Philip Evans said the new figure for the stolen loot was £13,690,331.75p.

It is much reduced from the £25m mentioned in more recent hearings, but around the same as the original figure announced after the raid on the safe deposit vault in London's jewellery district over the 2015 Easter weekend.

A ring stolen in Hatton Garden jewellery heist
Image: A ring stolen in Hatton Garden jewellery heist

Mr Evans said: "The amount to be repaid by the individuals remains subject to argument."

The proceeds of crime hearing is expected to last one week - much shorter than anticipated after prosecution and defence lawyers spent time in discussion.

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The five involved in the hearing are the four ring leaders Brian Reader, 78, Terence Perkins, 68, John Collins, 75 and Daniel Jones, 62, as well as the gang's getaway driver William Lincoln, 62.

Only Collins and Jones were in the dock for the start of the hearing, the others were said to be unwell.

Perkins, Collins, Jones and Lincoln were jailed for seven years in March 2016, while Reader got six years and three months. All were convicted for conspiracy to burgle the vault.

Another gang member, Carl Wood, 59, was ordered last year to pay back £50,000 or spend another 18 months in jail.

Some £13.6m worth of goods was stolen from the vault
Image: Some £13.6m worth of goods was stolen from the vault

The last of those convicted, plumber Hugh Doyle, is due in court next week.

He was convicted of handling stolen goods and given a suspended sentence.

The gang failed to drill through the vault wall on the first night of the heist, but successfully completed the job the following day after returning with more equipment.

They were caught principally because Collins used his own car during the raid and it was easily traced by the Flying Squad, a branch of the Serious and Organised Crime Command within the Metropolitan Police.

The gang was dubbed Dads' Army because of their ages.

Only £4m worth of the loot has been recovered, some of it from a grave in Edmonton, north London, after police were alerted by Paste BN.

One mystery gang member got away, a man known to the others as "Basil" who is thought to have taken some of the loot with him.