Bad Dads' Army: The Hatton Garden Heist

It's the biggest burglary in British history. What they were doing really

was something beyond history. What they were doing really

attempted before. It is a history. What they were doing really

screenplay. ?14 million worth of jewellery, gemstones and gold stolen

from the heart of the UK diamond industry. That's a bit special. Make

no mistake, they didn't think they would get caught. After today's

verdict which saw three more members of the gang responsible sent down,

this is the full inside story of how they pulled off last Easter's

record-breaking heist. The way it played out was very story. They did

a lot of intelligence, these are not morons. With exclusive access to the

elite flying squad. It became apparent it was a job for us. And

their dramatic investigation. They didn't know we were following them

so it with a gold mine of evidence. Including never seen before

surveillance of the thieves roasting of what they had done. I'm a rock

star. These were white working-class guys committing crime, it was old

school. And the moment loot was discovered in a cemetery. They

thought it was full proof and they would get away with it. In their

minds they have an audacious, cunning, sophisticated plot that

would net them considerable wealth cunning, sophisticated plot that

and the dude us that goes with it. A classic caper from a bygone Iraq.

When you're in there, it is like a kid at Christmas -- from a bygone

era. When cops and robbers played cat and mouse each trying to

outsmart the other this is the definitive story of the Bad Dad's

Army and the Hatton Garden heist. So who could have possibly pulled

off Britain's biggest jewellery heist? Organised crime routes

off Britain's biggest jewellery Russia or Eastern Europe? Nobody

expected it to be a group of old men in their 60s and 70s. I was quite

surprised, they were elderly but career criminals. It was one last

hurrah for them and it was their pension pot. The greed was there,

they thought they were invincible and arrogance kicked in and they had

an opportunity for one last hurrah. I think you can compare it with old

boxers, they retire but they get an offer to go back in the ring one

more time for a big prize and this was a big prize. Together the gang

conspired to break into a vault in the centre of London's

conspired to break into a vault in trade. To take on such an audacious

job would need experienced thieves with previous form -- jewellery

trade. First up, Brian Reader, the master. Aged 76, the old man of the

gang. As early as 2012 he started banning the Hatton Garden heist.

He's been described as the guvnor, the master, he would see himself at

top of the tree. A career criminal, previous convictions, notably for

being involved in the Brink's-Mat robbery. In 1983, six armed

being involved in the Brink's-Mat stole gold, cash and jewellery from

a warehouse at Heathrow Airport. Reader's involvement in the

Brink's-Mat theft was an indication of the same sort of desire to carry

out the big dramatic crime that net him remembered. Read it was

sentenced to eight years for handling stolen bullion. -- Reader.

He was the master, he identified the skills required for this enterprise

and it is his contacts in the criminal underworld that would have

put the team together. Next, they needed a lookout. 74-year-old John

Kenny Collins. He would wreck the Hatton Garden to check out the

permits this. He would also be the all-important getaway driver and was

again a man with form. John Collins, convicted of robbery on two

occasions, the second was armed robbery. He also has a significant

common law passed. Daniel Jones was the muscle, at the heart but

extensive banning. He was an organised criminal, he has spent a

certain amount of time in prison, he is younger and fitter and he brings

that to the group. 67-year-old Terence Perkins would take on

responsibility for the drilling and he also has form and was jailed for

Wendy two years. He was arrested in the early 80s. -- 22 years. Six

males went in with sawn off shotguns and stole almost ?7 million so he

has considerable history. And redhead Basil. A mysterious

character. His true identity is unknown and he remains at large.

Basil is the name given to him by the co-defendants, whether that is

Basil is the name given to him by his real name or not will soon be

established we hope. Each had their role to play. You have the four main

players who have the background and connections and the network in the

underworld that can put these components together. Within criminal

gangs we note that people have different responsibilities but

psychologically people play different roles, people are

important in different roles, people are

together in different ways. The success of the gang is dependent on

getting that delicate talents just right. -- balance.

Over pints in The Castle pub in Islington North London, the men

would spend hours potting them master plan, to pull off an

audacious heist full sub they boasted

They are looking at tremendous wealth and also towards laying down

the bragging rights within the criminal fraternity of committing

and getting away with Britain's biggest heist. This is our target.

It's a bold in the heart of Hatton Garden. -- vault. Our man gets as in

through the front door. That is Basil. He gets us through the fire

escape. Then to the list, we disable it and get access to the shaft. Then

it is down a level to the vault. We cut through the alarm wires, force

the gate to the door and just a little matter of a reinforced

concrete wall. We are going to drill through it, smashed open the

security boxes and get out. Any questions? As they talk through the

details, it becomes possible that they are going to do this crime

which is just considered not possible. They had to do a lot of

intelligence, these are not morons. What will give them the greatest

notoriety but respect in the criminal underworld is that it is a

crime without violence. Their target, Hatton Garden in central

London. The area as been the centre of the diamond industry for

centuries. Today around 300 businesses are based there,

representing one of the largest clusters of jewellery retailers in

the country. As such it has long been a favourite target for thieves

also in an effort to stop them, a cutting edge high security vault was

built in the 1940s in the basement of 88-90 Hatton Garden. With London

now a centre for diamonds, jewel bandits have made it a favourite

target but Hatton Garden now has its own giant strongroom. There is a

labyrinth of saves. It is the only one of its kind in Britain, nearly

1000 safes are within this mass of steel and reinforced concrete.

Thieves will have transferred their activities to other countries. Today

the vault contained almost 1000 safety deposit boxes full of cash,

gold, diamonds and gemstones. The vast majority belong to Hatton

Garden jewellers. Hatton Garden is where we get all our stones and

material, anything that we need, tools, we get it from Hatton Garden.

It is the centre of the jewellery trade in the UK and has been since

medieval times so it's trade in the UK and has been since

science to know that if you have a vault in Hatton Garden, this is

going to be packed full of goodies and the price is huge. The tarot of

London, diamonds, it is a bit of a post that you did

London, diamonds, it is a bit of a over. To do at an Garden is a bit

special. The audacity of the crime in terms of the planning and

professionalism of how it was carried out is right up there near

the top. By selecting this target, they were planning a job that would

put them right up there alongside Britain's most ambitious ever heist

including the notorious 1963 great train robbery, the millennium dome

diamond theft in 2000 and the ?53 million raid on the security is cash

depot in Kent in 2006 -- Securitas. The master plan was to be carried

out over the Easter weekend when they knew the bolt would be full and

the area quite. On second April 2015, Brian Reader boarded the

number 96 bus headed for Hatton Garden. In the days and hours before

the crime it would have become part of their identity what they were

doing to do and the roles they would adopt. You end up with a sense of

destiny, of elation, they were finally going to act out something

that they had long anticipated. And it would have been an almost unreal

feeling. Make no mistake, they did not think they would get caught,

they thought this was full proof and they would get away with it. Around

the same time, security guards at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit were

locking the vault. The security guard was the last to leave at 6pm,

not due to return until Tuesday seventh, four days later. The master

arrived in the area and met with the rest of the gang. They were

disguised as work men. The heist was finally in motion. Enter redhead

Basil. At 9:22pm he gains access to the building. To this day it is not

known exactly how he did it. Come on, lads. Once inside, he opened the

fire escape and let the others in. The gang began to put their

masterplan into action. They sent the lift up to the

second-floor, then disabled the sensor so the doors wouldn't close

and the lift couldn't move. They even left a hand-written out of

order sign in case it was discovered. With the lift stuck on

the second-floor, they were able to access the lift shaft with a clear

drop straight down into the basement. Jones and Basil scrambled

down. Despite initial news reports, there was no abseiling. They were

now a step closer to a vault with millions of pounds worth of jewels,

gold and cash. Stage one complete. They still had several obstacles

between them and their reward. Next, the intruder alarm. This they

attempted to deactivate by cutting through a telephone cable and

snapping the back-up transmitter's aerial. They then cut the power

cable to a magnetic lock on an iron gate and smashed through a wooden

door to allow the rest of the gang who hadn't come down the lift shaft

through. Using an angle grinder, they cut through a second metal gate

which protected the actual vault. Then all that was between them and

the loop, was the Vault door and a concrete wall, half a metre thick

and reinforced with steel. They had come prepared. Equipped with heavy

cutting gear. To access the diamonds, they used a diamond, a

specialist diamond-tipped high-powered coring drill designed

to penetrate concrete and stone. The drill was fitted with metal teeth

which grind away at the surface, to create a hole. It's capable of

spinning at 667 rpm in top gear and features a water-cooling system to

prevent it from overheating. They planned to drill a hole 25

centimetres by 45 centimetres in the wall, big enough for someone small

to squeeze through. It was a skill the pensioners had picked up by

watching clips on YouTube. Unbeknown to the gang, shortly after

midnight on April 3rd, the alarm they attempted to deactivate was

triggered and sent a text message alert. A security guard responded

nearly an hour later. After examining the front door and peering

through a letterbox he decided the building was secure and left without

going inside. All good here. False alarm. The police were also notified

of the alarm but the call wasn't graded properly which meant they

didn't think they needed to respond. All the while, the thieves in the

basement remained blissfully unaware of their lucky escape and continued

breaking into the vault. Their good fortune was short-lived.

When they finally drilled their way through the reinforced concrete wall

of the vault, they faced yet another obstacle. The back of the safe

deposit boxes, which were bolted to the ceiling and floor, were blocking

the hole and their way in. After almost 11 hours, they gave up and

left at around 8.00am empty-handed. This is where personality comes to

play. And interacts with the roles that they learnt and absorbed into

themselves. There are two different ways in which that can operate. For

some of them, the failure to master the environment, the situation, will

not be something that they can cope with and they will simply withdraw.

For others, the mistakes, the errors, the things going wrong, are

actually part of the whole challenge and they will rise to the challenge.

To walk away from that prize, when you are so close, very, very

difficult, very difficult, indeed. By the same token, the longer they

are in the vault, the longer they are on the premises, the chances of

them getting caught is raised considerably.

For a day and a half, their crime, half complete, lay undiscovered.

Temptation would prove too great. They broke one of the basic rules of

the criminal world and returned to the scene of the crime. They have

psyched themselves up once to do the job, then they have to go away, then

come back, amazingly cool head to be able to carry that out, very

difficult, because the risk is getting higher all the time. They

came back with yet more gear. Using a hydraulic ram, they were able to

dislodge the metal cabinets blocking the drilled hole. They were finally

in. They weren't all there to enjoy the moment. Brian "The Master"

Reader was not there to see his plan come good. We know Reader walks away

from it on that first night and didn't come back. It will be

interesting to see whether that was a loss of bottle or whether he saw

the writing on the wall and saw that there was a vulnerability to being

caught on the premises, having to go back a second time. At the time, it

sounds good when you are planning it. When you have had a pop and it

ain't worked, and you reflect back, the glamour has gone out of it, you

are looking at the reality, that is a different ball game. If people

looked at the reality of it, then they would never do it in the first

place. When things start to go wrong, for some of them, the damage

to their pride will have been too much. They will have been

compromised and they will no longer be committed to the storyline and

they will withdraw. The hole would have been a tight

squeeze. It's thought only Jones, the muscles, and the mysterious

Basil entered the vault. Once inside, they forced open 73

safety deposit boxes, filling bags and wheelie bins with jewels, gold,

precious stones and cash. Once you are in there, it is like a

kid at Christmas opening up presents. They are popping boxes and

inside the boxes is all prizes. One of the interesting things about the

case is, a relatively small number of the deposit boxes were broken

into given the amount of time they were in there, the deposit boxes are

not hard to break into once you are in the vault. I don't know if they

felt they had enough money, enough jewels, enough loot, or if they were

targeting certain boxes. It is interesting.

They loaded up their loot, worth an astonishing ?14 million. And hauled

it up the stairs, leaving via the fire escape. They had done it. It

was by far the biggest pay day of their career and incredibly it

looked like they had got away with it. Another two days went by before

the theft was finally discovered. On Tuesday 7th April, security guards

arrived for work at around 8.00am. They called the police, triggering a

major investigation by the elite Flying Squad. It was a burglary in

Hatton Garden, it was going to be high-value, so we decided we would

take it, get down there, assess it and we would develop it from there

and within a few hours it became apparent it was a serious crime and

it was a job for us. The Flying Squad was formed in 1919.

That was a neat little job, you two. They are called the Flying Squad

because they went over different boroughs so there was no boundary as

to where they could go to. Today, the people we recruit on to the

Flying Squad are thief takers, they can get that evidence together to

successfully prosecute people that go to court. In Cockney rhyming

slang, the Flying Squad is Sweeney Todd, ie, the Sweeney. They were the

first place to use cars and became famous for their contacts with the

criminal underworld. They were renowned for swooping in and

catching criminals red-handed. The Flying Squad's logo, the swooping

eagle, depicts silently they come, picking off their prey. Everyone

knows you are representing that legacy. You know that the Flying

Squad were involved in the Great Train Robbery, you know they were

involved in the Brink's-Mat, they have been involved in the Dome

robbery, and what you want to do is perpetuate that legacy, so, first of

all, you do feel that ownership and responsibility to make sure the

investigations you are doing are top drawer. Flying Squads operate

against the most violent criminals that London have. They have built up

a reputation over many years. There isn't a major robbery that hasn't

been solved by the Flying Squad, using their expertise. They have

been to the Millennium Dome, some of the Heathrow robberies where we have

successfully prosecuted individuals, and there was an audacious attack on

Grafts Juliry. -- jewellery. There is a deep history of the Flying

Squad being successfully. The scale of what the Hatton Garden thieves

have got away with made headlines around the world. The Flying Squad

were in the spotlight once more. This crime has been three years in

the planning for them, but we have to hit the ground running, we have

victims, a lot of these victims, it was clear early on were going to be

significantly financially affected by this. So, straightaway, there is

the pressure of those people turning up having heard that it had been

broken into and you could see the devastation and what it meant to

them. The vast majority of people who stored property at the Hatton

Garden Safe Deposit Ltd were traders in London's jewellery quarter, with

much of their wealth tied up in goods. I have been through the door

every single day, three or four times a week for 45 years. My wife

and I have were sitting in the car and listened to the BBC. Just before

6.30pm, the last thing on the news was the fact that Hatton Garden Safe

Deposit Ltd had been done and lots of the deposit boxes had been

opened. The Flying Squad phoned and said my box was opened and empty. It

was quite a big part of my pension that was sitting in there, or had

been sitting in there, which was now gone.

I needed to see my box, which I did. Box 998. Completely broken. And

empty. The biggest shock was the size, to see the size of the actual

hole. Honestly, only a very size, to see the size of the actual

very slender person could get through that hole. It was tiny. I

could get my head through and half of my shoulders. I could certainly

not get through that. They had gone into this vault and they have stolen

people's property. The objective was to enrich themselves

other people's valuables. You have other people's valuables.

to remember throughout that it is not a victimless crime, this. They

have gone in, they decided they are going to enrich themselves, get

their pension from other people. The Hatton Garden investigation was

a classic case of cops and robbers. Would the Flying Squad catch the

gang before they got rid of their haul? Early speculation suggested a

heist of this size and ambition could only have been pulled off by a

criminal gang with the right connections to move the loot on. The

first clues would come from piecing together CCTV footage. The CCTV

that's obtained initially, we have that within a few hours on the first

day. We look through that and we establish that they have been there

twice. Cameras around Hatton Garden captured almost their every move.

Starting with the white van arriving ahead of the initial raid. Then, the

thieves with their builders' outfits and wheelie bins making their way in

through the fire escape. With the elusive Basil dressed all in blue.

And the van leaving after the failed first attempt when things started to

go wrong. They have planned for three years,

they have not been able to get in, it is a big pay day and they have

started to take risks, they have not thought through what they are doing

next. Despite the setbacks, some returned for the second attempt.

Again, entering through the fire escape. Before eventually loading

the van with the millions of pounds worth of stolen loot. The Flying

Squad had the crooks in action, but who were they? Their big break in

identifying them would come as a result of the thieves' critical

decision to return to the crime scene that second time.

That gives us a breakthrough because it led the CCTV officers to identify

on the second night they had arrived in a Mercedes earlier. This was the

Squad's best lead. Detectives were able to trace that Mercedes to one

John "Kenny" Collins. Because John Collins was using his

own vehicle, it was very distinctive and very few of them on the road, a

black roof and wheels so even the grainy CCTV that would not normally

be of great value, identified and we were able to track that car. You

be of great value, identified and we have to wait until you get something

that is concrete and tangible to get a good start point which is what the

Mercedes was and you commit your resources down that line. The flying

squad put Collins under surveillance. Collins quickly led

them to other members of the gang. Covert officers captured

them to other members of the gang. with Brian Reader, they were

watching as they met in cafes and pubs. The group are coming together,

it was now a patient's game on our part and that paid off when John

Collins, Terence Perkins and Brian Reader met on a Friday night in The

Castle Public house to discuss what had taken place. Perkins and Collins

were telling Reader when they went back how they were successful in the

end. Detectives also planted a electronic listening bugs on two

cars used by the gang including the Mercedes. It is a tactic used in

serious crime investigations and can be quite productive and obviously it

was on this occasion. It'll never happen again. The

biggest robbery in the world we was on! We were able to obtain

recordings of their conversations and we know they were quite excited

about the fact that they had got away with such a large-scale offence

and it would be unlikely the police would know what had taken place and

who to look for other were comfortable that they were away

scot-free. What are the odds? The men couldn't help boasting and

bragging about what they had done, totally unaware the police were

listening to every word. The audio recordings of the conversation told

you how they did it, who they did it with, how they would sort it out so

it was a gold mine of evidence and information.

What they were up to is known in criminal circles as the slaughter.

Slaughter is a place where you meet afterwards and you share the loot.

Everybody gets their share. It's amazing, you're looking and you

think, I earned more than the Prime Minister at this time, I'm a rock

star. When you have got such tremendous quantities of loot to get

rid of, it becomes a problem of how to break it all up and share it

between them, how to launder it and change everything into cash. After

the heist, the gang members had been at the bolt on the second night and

started to distribute their whole -- at the vault. The icing on the cake.

Some of the older guys made their reputations as people who could

shift stolen goods, that was their skill going back decades. Worth

working over Easter! In May, around six weeks after the heist, it is

time for the exchange. Possibly thinking the heat had died down,

Collins arranged for members of the gang together a substantial amount

of the loot to redistribute. Here he is on CCTV scouting out the location

with his dog was at the pub car park in Enfield, north London, he met a

long-time friend. This man, Hugh Doyle, who runs a business next door

to the car park. Police believed the 42-year-old let them use the yard to

transfer the loot. The reason they wanted to do it in that area was

because they did not want to do a boot to boot in the street because

that could have looked like a drugs deal to eight passing police officer

or member of the public and they could lose everything they had

worked for over a simple error. They wanted to use the car park area

because it gave them some degree of privacy. They did not realise it was

covered by a camera and that we were following them. The exchange

happened the following day. This also was recorded on CCTV. Collins

arrived along with another of the ringleaders, Daniel Jones, who wore

shorts for the occasion. You know that this is the day you are hoping

this will be right, hoping that you actually find something because it

would be one thing to arrest the group together but what we wanted

was property. Enter two more characters, William Lincoln was, the

police believed, recruited prior to the burglary to help transport and

conceal the main loot. And to have recruited his nephew, Jon Harbinson,

as a taxi driver to also help with transport. Harbinson was also

alleged to have been storing a large amount of the loot after the initial

slaughter. This was said to be the moment the three bags containing

diamonds, watches and necklaces were shifted from Jon Harbinson's taxi to

Collins's Mercedes. The three bags it's changed -- exchanged behind the

pub contained an estimated two to ?4 million worth of diamonds and gold.

With the exchange done, Collins and Jones drove off with a boot full of

loot. In the same distinctive Aceves Collins had driven to Hatton Garden

on the second night of the heist which we now know was the beginning

of their own doing -- They drove to a nearby property with

the flying squad on their tail. We had weeks of surveillance showing

the principled meeting up, the audio recording saying what they had done

and how they would do it and eventually some property coming out

of the woodwork so we had sufficient, there was no reason to

delay any longer so that was why we made the decision

The police made their move. In co-ordinated raids with more than

200 officers they hit 12 addresses in London and Kent. Including the

home of Brian Reader. In his house, a diamond tester and a book on the

diamond underworld. It was important because they could dispose of

property or disappear, we don't know what each had at that point in time.

Anything could happen so it was key to arrest any of the printable

conspirators at that point. -- principle. They also Nick Collins

and Perkins and Jones. In their possession were

and Perkins and Jones. In their from the car park exchange

containing millions of pounds worth of loot. A search of Collins house

revealed a large amount of cash, watches, jewellery and a money

counter and police found facemask, a drill and cash at Jones's house.

With Perkins they found jewellery, cash, blue overalls and white

gloves. They were surprised and disappointed. Actively in their

minds they were trying to work out how to minimise their criminal

responsibility and it is not until they are interviewed and they walk

through the evidence against them that they realise how comprehensive

the investigation that they realise how comprehensive

amount of trouble they were in. The aftermath is a bit of a surprise

that the loot was still in their homes, that is surprising given the

professionalism and the care that the crime had been carried out with.

It is a bit surprising that there was not more professionalism in the

moving of the goods afterwards. They had been focused on how to get in,

not leaving any forensics, those details which proved in their minds

that you are a professional but actually it is the banal details

that make one into a professional criminal that would have ensured

they were not caught. Several other men were also picked up as part of

the raids. William Lincoln denied any involvement with the heist and

said he was given three bags by Collins and told they contained

paperwork and bric-a-brac. Jon Harbinson was also arrested but

denied knowing what was in the bags, claiming his uncle told him it was a

load of old sheet. In his defence, Hugh Doyle said he had no idea what

they were planning and no knowledge of what was taking place. This man

was also arrested, Carl Wood. The prosecution alleged he was at the

burglary on both nights but didn't go inside on the second visit

because he bottled it. He denied ever being at the heist. It was nice

because he bottled it. He denied for people like Perkins and Jones to

see Brian Reader sitting in the same police station as them because they

were thinking, how has he got here. They stayed deadpan

were thinking, how has he got here. experienced criminals and will not

give anything away in a police station or acknowledge other people

so it is deadpan, don't know who it is. With arrests made, police could

interview their suspects. They were not saying much. Were you a driller?

No comment. The person that could deactivate the lift shaft? No

comment. The alarm systems? No comment. Was it you that messed up?

No comment. It was your role to get through the hole? No comment.

They provided interviews regarding what happened.

And you'll Jones, when interviewed, listened to recordings of him and

Perkins talking in the car and it was at that point the game was up --

Daniel Perkins. Jones and three other ringleaders

saw the writing on the wall and confessed. To have four who have

spent three years in the planning of this offence to plead before going

to trial shows and is rewarding enough for us to say we have done

the right job and are doing right by the victims. From his cell at

Belmarsh prison, Danny Jones offered to give up his stash of the loot,

claiming he wanted to go straight. to give up his stash of the loot,

He said he had hidden it at Edmonton Cemetery in north London.

Police searched graves, digging for around two hours, uncovering

jewellery and precious stones. A week later, they returned, this

time taking Jones from his cell. He led them to a different grave.

What's in here, Danny? That's the lot. He said that was all he had, no

doubt hoping to come back for the rest after his release. He was

unaware police had already recovered the first, larger haul. Some of the

items seized have been traced back to Kjeld Jacobsen. I have probably

been luckier than most because it seems now that I would probably end

up having something like one-third of what had been stolen back. The

jewellery they found in the church yard, I have been told by the police

that some of that is mine. Police have recovered some of the

stolen property and they had their four ringleaders. The others, Carl

Wood, William Lincoln, Jon Harbison and Hugh Doyle all pleaded not

guilty and went on trial. The case, lasting around six weeks, finished

today. Wood and Lincoln have both been convicted of their roles. They

played their part in conspiring to pull off Britain's biggest heist.

Doyle was cleared of conspiracy to conceal, but found guilty of

concealing property. Jon Harbison was cleared of all

charges. Today marked the culmination of one

of the most notorious capers in British criminal history. A truly

audacious plot masterminded by a cunning gang of pensioners. Foiled

by the gritty determination of the Flying Squad's elite thief takers.

They would see themselves at the top end of criminality and I think from

that, they are sensible enough to know that the Flying Squad is at the

top end of police investigation. They planned the job well. They then

hit a barrier. They made mistakes and then they got themselves caught.

I think there is an element of them thinking that this was old school

crime and that once they were out of the building, they were home and

free. It's as if life ceased to exist beyond carrying out this

crime. Three years in the build-up, carrying out the crime and they

hadn't thought past that. There is a nostalgia of the pre-drugs era where

people used their brain and daring. The fact that it didn't work, most

of them got caught, and a large amount of the money has been

recovered, a large amount of goods have been recovered, has almost been

put aside. The nearly story is a better story. The one we almost

pulled off is a tale that has more dramatic entertainment value, makes

them more into heroes. If they had got away with it, it's a different

story, but they didn't. Their plan unravelled quite spectacularly at

the end of the day. The number of flaws in how they operated and

perhaps their age is a reason why. We have to make one thing clear.

They are very audacious, which has captured the attention of the

public. These are callous thieves. The guilty men are now serving time.

All except one, that is. Basil, or whatever his real name is, seems to

have got away with it, for now. He is still out there somewhere, along

with ?10 million of missing loot. Obviously, we will still continue

looking for Basil. The investigation is not completed even though we have

convictions. The number of avenues of inquiry we have still got left,

it is to work out who Basil is and see if we can get him to court, it

is identifying the outstanding property. So although we have got to

this stage, which is a nice point in the investigation, there is still a

lot of work to do on it and one of them is to catch Basil. It is

interesting that they are not giving him up. I wonder what that's about

and whether there's more to the story than we know. There is a

certain amount of frustration, they won't cease until they complete

their investigation and that will be the tenacity and their drive. I have

got every confidence that they will get there. That's all part of the

myth of a good heist, someone not being captured, which, put that

alongside the missing loot, you've got stories for generations.