Hatton Garden heist ringleader seen for first time since release from jail with millions in stolen loot still missing
THE Hatton Garden heist ringleader has been seen for the first time after he was released from prison. Danny Jones, 67, was spotted walking in Enfield, north London, while most of the £14million of stolen loot remains missing. He was released from HMP Hollesley Bay earlier this week and was seen enjoying a stroll near […]
THE Hatton Garden heist ringleader has been seen for the first time after he was released from prison.
Danny Jones, 67, was spotted walking in Enfield, north London, while most of the £14million of stolen loot remains missing.
He was released from HMP Hollesley Bay earlier this week and was seen enjoying a stroll near his home.
The 67-year-old served seven years for his role in the 2015 heist when six elderly thieves drilled into an underground safe deposit facility.
The raiders used high-duty drills to tunnel into the vault, boring through 7ft thick walls to crack open 73 boxes containing millions of pounds of jewels and precious metals, including diamonds, sapphires and gold.
They all pleaded guilty and were later convicted.
In 2018 Jones got another three years for a raid on a Mayfair jewellers.
He was transferred to an open jail closer to his home last May.
His release means that alarm expert Michael Seed and Kenny Collins, 81 are the only members of the “diamond wheezers” who remain in prison.
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Seed was the last raider to be arrested despite living in a council house in Islington, less than two miles away from the robbery.
He was jailed for ten years in 2019.
In September it was revealed he had only paid £2,381 of a near-£6million confiscation order.
Brian Reader – known as ‘The Master’ – was released in July 2018 after serving just over three years.
He was released with remission having suffered from prostate cancer and a series of strokes.
Reader had faced a further seven-year term if he could not pay a £6.5million confiscation order imposed on him and three other ringleaders.
Due to his health, Reader received a sentence seven months shorter than his fellow Hatton Garden ringleaders.
Terry Perkins died in prison in February 2018 of natural causes, aged 69, after he was ordered to repay around £6.5m in missing cash.
Carl Wood from Cheshunt, was arrested in 2015 and was handed a six year prison sentence for his part.
William Lincoln who was known as ‘Billy the Fish’ was given a seven year stretch.
He acted as the gang’s getaway driver.
The heist that happened during the Easter bank holiday weekend in April 2015 was branded England’s biggest burglary.
The story was featured in a movie and became an ITV four-part documentary.
In March last year copycat thieves drilled a 3ft hole through a wall to get into a WHSmith store.
