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Hatton Garden Robbers

  • 21-05-2015 1:27pm
    #1
    jezzer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭


    Anyone know how the cops managed to catch the thieves? I believe that they found a lot of the loot in their houses, its hard to believe they had the ability to break into the vault of a secure facility but hadnt the cop on to hide the loot away from their residence???


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  • #2
    Mad Benny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Mad Benny


    I agree. I'd love to know how they caught the gang. A movie will be made about this.


  • #3
    jezzer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭jezzer


    Mad Benny wrote: »
    I agree. I'd love to know how they caught the gang. A movie will be made about this.

    defo, i am suspecting it was a tip off


  • #4
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    Didn't they say at the time that there was only a small number of people in the UK with the capability of pulling this off so they probably had a fair idea from the start.


  • #5
    michael999999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭michael999999


    With the sheer physicality of the job, I'd imagine there was buckets of sweat to get DNA from!

    I'd imagine to do a job this big, the guys doing it would have previous. Probably already served large sentences. So the cops would surely have samples from one of them!


  • #6
    Nomis21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Nomis21


    "A 1980's team up against twenty first century technology"

    One of the gang drove his own car past the bank on CCTV

    Only two thirds of the loot recovered.

    Seven years for one of the most audacious crimes of all time?

    No wonder they thanked the judge!

    EDIT Just heard 10 years is the max in UK for non residential burglary and they pleaded guilty.


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  • #7
    jezzer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭jezzer


    well set up for retirement so


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