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The Hatton Garden thief 'Basil the Ghost' has had another six years added to his ten-year jail sentence for failing to pay back his share from the £14million heist.
Michael Seed, 62, pocketed £4.7million in Britain's biggest burglary but paid back less than £50,000.
Following a Court of Appeal case in July, the amount the alarm specialist was ordered to pay back was slashed from £6million to £600,000 and he was told if he failed to do so he would receive extra jail time.
Seed was one of two men who climbed into the vault to loot 73 safe deposit boxes after a gang of ageing criminals drilled through the thick concrete wall over the 2015 Easter bank holiday weekend.
He will now serve an extra six-and-a-half years on top of his 10-year 2019 jail-term for his role in the £13.6million heist, according to The Mirror.
Michael Seed, 62, pocketed £4.7million in Britain's biggest burglary yet has only paid back £50,000
The infamous raid - said to be the largest burglary in British history - involved the gang drilling through the concrete wall of the vault beneath London's diamond district
Seed was jailed four years after the heist and was the last to be caught as police were in the dark about the identity of the man who had disabled the alarms and squeezed into the vault.
He first came onto the police radar when a surveillance team spotted him chatting to one of the gang, John 'Kenny' Collins, in the weeks after the raid - but at that point detectives had no idea who he was.
By the end of November 2015, police identified Collins' confidant as Seed, starting a two-year surveillance operation which eventually confirmed he was Basil, the one that got away.
Smashed safe deposit boxes are pictured in the underground vault of the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company which was raided in what has been called the largest burglary in English legal history
File court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook dated March 29 2018 of Michael Seed appearing at Westminster Magistrates Court
The Hatton Garden gang tunnelled into a basement vault over two nights.
They broke into dozens of metal security boxes and made off with a record-breaking haul of cash, gold, jewellery and gemstones.
Only £4million of loot has ever been recovered. It is unknown exactly how much remains unrecovered.
Nine people were convicted and jailed for their roles in the raid, one of the biggest in UK history.
Photos issued by the Met showed the inside of the vault at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company and Seed's bedroom, where police found electrical devices, precision drills, a smelting machine and more than 1,000 items of jewellery, gold, watches and bundles of precious or semi-precious stones
During a raid on his home in Islington, North London, gold was found in his desk and wardrobe
Ahead of their jailing, several of
