The Hatton Garden gang stole £14m in jewels… but was the REAL prize a piece ... trends now
In September, career criminal Brian ‘The Govnor’ Reader died of colon and prostate cancer. The old-school gangster led the ‘Diamond Wheezers’ mob into Hatton Garden in 2015, stealing £14m of gold bullion and jewels from a safety deposit company.
Authorities only recovered a fraction of the heist, but some members of the gangland fraternity and detectives involved in investigating the raid, believe the record haul was not the main reason for the audacious job.
Reader, who died at the age of 84, and his gang broke into the building at 88-89 Hatton Garden and ransacked 73 out of almost 1,000 strong boxes over Easter in 2015.
Police were unable to identify what was in many of the boxes as the owners refused to come forward.
Detectives believe that veteran crime boss Terry Adams, pictured, may have had links to the Diamond Wheezer mob responsible for the audacious Hatton Garden safety deposit raid in April 2015
Adams, pictured, is head of the Clerkenwell mob. One theory on the 2015 raid suggests Adams wanted the contents of one specific deposit box in the high security vault
Brian Reader was jailed for six years and three months after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary but was released halfway through his sentence in 2018 following a series of health battles
Gold ingots found by the police at the home of co-conspirator Michael Seed in Islington
The burglars worked through the four-day weekend of the Easter and Passover Bank Holiday, when many of the nearby businesses were closed
One of those believed to have had a box in the vault was Terry Adams, head of the Adams crime family.
Sources previously told the Mail that Adams could have been the mastermind behind the entire operation.
One source claimed: ‘‘If there is one man who could fix something like that it is Terry Adams. He and his minders are in Hatton Garden all the time, even at weekends. They don’t hang around
