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by Dan Bilefsky


  Index

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  Adams family, 109–110, 174

  Angel, London, 20

  Archers Financial Services, Enfield, 56, 187

  Asif, Muhammad, 208

  Associated Response, 52, 210, 227

  ATM machine, world’s first, 51, 53

  Baker Street robbery (Lloyd’s bank), 7–9, 54, 62, 75, 199

  Bank Job, The (movie), 9

  bank vaults, development and technology, 54–55

  Barrett, Bill, 11, 166–167

  Basil

  about, 21, 57

  arrival and entry into safe deposit building, 71–72, 230–231

  attempt to disable alarm, 74, 75, 231

  destruction of CCTV cameras, 74, 117

  drilling through the vault’s wall, 75, 76

  insider information, 72, 230

  key to building acquired, 57, 71, 169

  leaving Hatton Garden, 79, 83, 231

  mystery about identity, 21, 197, 229–234

  preparations for heist, 57, 63, 75

  relationship with Reader, 21, 56–57, 59, 197

  return to Hatton Garden on Sunday, 83–84

  rumored connection to Adams family, 109

  share of the booty, 231–232

  video images of, 197, 230–231, 231, 232

  waking up Collins during burglary, 76

  see also Seed, Michael

  Bavishi, Alok, xii, xiii, 76–77, 223

  Bavishi, Aruna, xii

  Bavishi, Mahendra, xii, 101

  Bavishi, Manish, xii, 101–102, 115

  Beckham, David, 141

  Beckham, Victoria and David, 65

  Bedford, Mark, 189

  Bellfield, Levi, 208

  Belmarsh Prison

  about, 30, 204, 209, 239–242

  Brian Reader, 236, 241–242, 246

  Carl Wood, 243–244

  Danny Jones, 212, 232, 236, 243–244

  Hugh Doyle, 215, 243

  Kenny Collins, 30–31, 243, 248

  Kevin Lane, 243

  Terry Perkins, 204, 236, 243

  Benedict, Matthew, 223

  Benn, Tony, 13

  Berganza Ltd, 74, 117

  Biggs, Ronnie, 92, 240

  Billingsgate Fish Market, 221

  Black, Anthony, 17

  Blair, Tony, 20

  Bond, James, 41, 143, 144

  Bonnie Gull Seafood Bar, Exmouth Market, 134

  Bottomley, Horatio, 91

  Brink’s-Mat heist, 9, 14, 16–18, 110, 158, 214

  Bronson, Charles (Michael Gordon Peterson), 239

  Caine, Michael, 244

  Cameron, David, 97, 148, 152, 198, 201

  Campbell, Duncan, 18

  Castle pub

  after the heist, 125, 137, 159, 191

  Firm planning meetings, 19–20, 59, 125, 133, 159, 211

  reminiscing about old times, 6

  surveillance recordings, 133, 137–138

  Charles (prince), 49

  Chatila heist, 1–2, 3–4, 235–238, 244

  Chatila jewelry boutique, about, 1–2, 235

  Chop House restaurant, Clerkenwell, 37

  Clarkson, Wensley, 123

  Clerkenwell, London, xiv, 24, 37, 42–43, 59

  Cockney rhyming slang, 14, 91, 130, 131–133, 137, 167

  Coeur de la Mer necklace, 2

  Collins, John “Kenny”

  about, 30–31

  age, 20

  arrest, 189, 202

  arrival and entry into 25 Hatton Garden, 70–71, 73

  in Belmarsh Prison, 30–31, 243, 248

  Castle pub surveillance recordings, 137–138

  Cockney slang use, 166–167

  comments about Basil, 169, 229

  complaints about Reader, 164, 166–169, 169

  confiscation hearings, 244, 245

  Dempsey, his dog, 30, 59–60, 161

  followed by undercover officers, 133, 134

  getaway driver, 30, 60, 62, 76, 85–86

  guilty plea, 198, 202, 206

  identified as suspect, 120–121, 128

  interviews after arrest, 195

  jewels hidden in house, 155, 171

  leaving Hatton Garden on Friday, 79, 80, 81

  lookout man, 30, 62, 70, 76, 84, 85

  meeting on day after heist, 86

  at Old Wheatsheaf for jewel exchange, 184–185, 187

  phone calls monitored by Flying Squad, 121

  planning Hatton Garden heist, 20–21, 24, 60–61

  plans to move and exchange jewels, 179, 182–184

  purchase of new hydraulic pump ram, 81–82, 120, 195

  reconnaissance, 61–62, 119

  on regular jobs vs. crime, 21

  return to Hatton Garden on Sunday, 83–84

  sentencing, 226

  surveillance bugs in car, 121, 161–170, 182–185, 229

  tendency to fall asleep, 30, 73, 76, 171

  white Mercedes, 21, 83, 119–120, 134, 182, 195

  white van driven by, 70

  Collins, Millie, 31, 81, 127, 134, 162, 248

  Connell, Tony, 26–27

  Cordrey, Roger, 39

  Corsellis, Nick, 224, 242–243

  Costa del Crime (Costa del Sol, Spain), 15, 18, 35

  Creighton, James (Jimmy Two Baths), 221, 222

  Crown Prosecution Service, 26, 191, 197–198, 207

  Cruse, Carlos, 69

  Dacre, Paul, 96

  Dad’s Army (TV show), 203

  Daily Mail (newspaper), 38, 96, 101, 202, 209, 218, 226

  Daily Telegraph (newspaper), 96

  Davies, Edmund, 39

  Day, Jamie

  about, 113

  challenge of Cockney slang, 132

  in charge of day-to-day investigation, 111

  Chatila trial, 236

  collecting evidence from Hatton Garden, 114–117

  initial response to Hatton Garden heist, 89, 114

  interviews and confessions of gang, 196, 198

  lack of early Hatton Garden clues, 107–108

  listening devices in Collins’s and Perkins’s cars, 121

  planning raid to arrest suspects, 181–182

  review of CCTV footage, 118–120, 140

  De Beers, xii, 89, 144, 145

  Delhi Grill, Islington, 133, 160

  Dempsey, Collins’s dog, 30, 59–60, 161

  Diamonds Are Forever (Fleming), 41

  Diamond Street (Lichtenstein), 43

  Dickens, Charles, 42

  D & M Tools, 82

  Dowler, Milly, 96, 208

  Doyle, Hugh

  about, 127–128, 172

  arrest, 202

  Associated Response, 52, 210, 227

  in Belmarsh Prison, 215, 243

  departure before jewel exchange, 187

  friendship with Collins, 52, 53, 215–216

  house in Enfield, 52, 127–128

  interviews after arrest, 196

  plumbing workshop location, 52, 53–54, 126, 128, 172

  sentencing, 26, 226, 227

  trial, 207, 210, 215–217, 226, 227

  water pipes installed at shed, 56

  workshop key given to Collins, 53, 56, 128, 172, 216–217

  Edward, Gerald, 29–30

  Ely Place, 43

  Enfield, north London, 51–53, 149–150

  Evans, Philip

  about, 205, 207–208

  Chatila burglary case, 3

  description of Johnson, 142

  Hatton Garden prosecution, 204, 205–207, 208–209, 210–217, 218–219, 220, 222

  on media coverage, 203

  on punishment of gang, 242

  Flying Squad

  ethos of catching suspects in the act, 145

  history and overview, 90–94

  Leo Grunhut killing solved, 47

  methodology, 92–
93

  Millennium Dome heist, 92, 143–145

  Operation Countryman, 92

  see also Hatton Garden investigation; specific people

  Fordham, John, 122–124

  Foreman, Freddie

  about, 33–36

  enforcer for the Kray twins, 25, 33, 35, 61

  exile in Spain, 35–36

  on the Great Train Robbery, 37

  recruitment by Perkins, 33

  Security Express robbery, 24, 25, 33–34, 35

  Forensics for Dummies, 62, 86, 191, 211

  Fort Knox, Kentucky, 54

  Gallagher, Liam, 42

  Gallagher, Noel, 150

  Gardener, 56, 57–59, 60

  Garner, Roy, 15

  Gervaise, Micky “Skinny,” 11, 15–16

  God Is Not Great (Hitchens), 215

  Goldberg, Philip, 49–50

  Goodwin, John “The Face,” 11

  Goody, Gordon, 37

  Gordon, George Edward, 46

  Graff Diamonds robberies, 49–50, 108

  great robbery of Hatton Garden (1778), 48

  Great Train Robbery, 9, 37–39, 92, 130, 198, 240

  Grignion, Thomas, 103

  Grunhut, Leo, 47

  Hadfield, Gillian, 136–138

  Hadid, Zaha, 50

  Hall, Ed, 109, 191–192, 207–208

  Hamza, Abu, 239

  Harbinson, John

  arrest, 202

  defense lawyers, 210, 214

  transporting and storing jewels, 86, 126, 172, 207, 214, 220, 225

  transporting jewels to handover point, 172, 178–179, 187, 225

  trial, 207, 225–226

  Harlequin Pub, 24, 128, 215, 216

  Harry Winston jewelry store robbery, 109

  Hart, Valerie, 2, 21, 28, 82, 157, 247

  Hatton, Christopher, 41

  Hatton Garden

  black money in, 48, 104

  criminal underworld in, 41, 42–43, 47–50

  culture of trust, 44–46

  description and history, xii, 41–44, 249

  great robbery of (1778), 48

  private security firms used, 50

  Hatton Garden heist

  amount stolen, 86, 90, 104, 212, 244

  arrival and entry into building, 69–73

  a bungled crime, 190–192

  discovery of theft, 87

  drilling through the vault’s wall, 75–76, 78, 79–81

  getting to the vault, 73–75

  hole in vault blocked by metal cabinet, 78–81

  hydraulic rams used, 78–79, 82, 89–90, 137

  intruder alarm ignored by police, 77–78, 90, 96, 99, 186, 192, 213

  intruder alarm triggered, 76–77, 78, 90, 169

  leaving Hatton Garden on Friday, 79–80

  lists of stolen items, 103–106

  media frenzy about, 95–99, 128–129, 232

  ransacking the vault, 84–85

  return to Hatton Garden on Sunday, 83–84

  taking jewels from the vault, 85–86

  victims, about, 99–107, 111, 148, 194–195

  victims’ demands for information, 90, 111, 116

  white van driven by Collins, 70, 72–73, 79–80, 83, 86, 119, 195

  Hatton Garden heist, preparation

  drilling at Doyle’s plumbing workshop, 53–54, 56, 126, 128, 172

  planning meetings at Castle pub, 19–20, 59, 125, 133, 159, 211

  planning meetings at Old Wheatsheaf pub, 59, 199

  reconnaissance, 60, 61–64, 70, 119

  suspicious activity observed by witnesses, 66–67

  white van observed by Wiffen, 66

  Hatton Garden investigation

  assembly of a team, 111

  Castle pub surveillance recordings, 133, 137–138

  collecting evidence from Hatton Garden, 113–122

  Collins identified, 120–121, 128

  as covert operation, 116, 129

  evidence found at Jones’s house, 210

  evidence found at Terri Robinson’s house, 189–190

  following the suspects, 133–136

  huge pressure to solve the crime, 98–99, 114, 118

  inside job suggested, 101–102, 115, 129, 139–140, 163, 213, 224

  interviews and confessions of gang, 193–199

  lack of early clues, 107–110

  lip-reading use, 111, 136–138

  as Operation Spire, 99, 163

  Perkins identified, 121, 143

  phone calls monitored by Flying Squad, 121, 135

  planning raid to arrest suspects, 181–182, 185–189

  Reader identified, 121

  review of CCTV footage, 118–120, 205, 229

  surveillance bugs in Collins’s car, 121, 161–170, 182–185, 229

  surveillance bugs in Perkins’s car, 121, 131, 138–140, 148–152, 178–180, 182, 205, 236

  white van, 119, 195, 218, 230

  see also Flying Squad; trial of Hatton Garden accomplices

  Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd.

  about, xii–xiii, 69

  bankruptcy, 101, 248

  business hours, 63

  elevator shaft, 63, 73–74, 79, 89, 199, 202

  night watchman laid off, xiii, 22–23

  number of security guards, xiii

  origins, 46–47

  security for access to vault, 22–23, 47, 72, 101

  Hidden London, 42

  High Holborn fire, 102

  Highland Angus Steakhouse on Cannon Hill, 134

  Hill Street Blues (TV show), 142

  Hilti DD350 power drill, 55, 75, 95–96

  Hilton, John, 47

  Hobbs, Dick, 12–13, 191

  Hodgson, Janet, 53

  Hodgson, Peggy, 53

  Hogan-Howe, Bernard, 97–98

  Holmes, Sherlock, 7, 8

  Huntley, Ian, 239

  Ivens, Alan, 199

  Jagger, Mick, 9

  Johnson, Boris, 20

  Johnson, Paul

  about, 89, 141–142

  in charge of Hatton Garden investigation, 111, 112–113

  covert surveillance use, 122, 131, 141, 142–145

  initial response to Hatton Garden heist, 88–90

  interviews of gang, 193, 197, 198

  lack of early Hatton Garden clues, 107–108, 110

  law enforcement career, 89, 92, 94–95, 111–112

  and Millennium Dome heist, 89, 143–145

  patience in investigation, 131, 133, 141, 143

  planning raid to arrest suspects, 181–182, 185–189

  press conference announcing Hatton Garden burglary, 95–96

  on punishment of gang, 242

  reaction to Hatton Garden arrests, 189–190, 198

  teamwork with Turner, 111–113

  Jones, Daniel

  about, 2, 28–30, 219–220

  age, 20

  arrest, 188–189, 202

  athleticism, 2, 28, 29, 62, 138, 160

  in Belmarsh Prison, 212, 232, 236, 243–244

  boasting about the heist, 130, 138, 168, 205

  Castle pub surveillance recordings, 133

  Chatila heist, 2, 3–4, 236–238, 244, 247

  Cockney slang use, 2, 130, 131–133, 138, 163, 166

  comments about Basil, 57, 169, 229, 231, 232–233

  complaints about Reader, 6–7, 159–161, 164, 165–168, 195

  concerns about Lincoln, 172

  confiscation hearings, 244, 246–247

  diary, 29–30

  drilling through the vault’s wall, 75–76, 78, 138

  evidence found at Jones’s house, 210

  failed ruse about loot location, 212–213

  fantasy life, 2, 183–184

  followed by undercover officers, 133–134, 136, 152–154

  guilty plea, 198, 202, 206

  house in Enfield, 29, 51–52, 55, 247

  interviews after arrest, 195, 196, 197

  learning about diamond-tipped drill, 55
, 63

  leaving Hatton Garden on Friday, 79–80, 81

  loot hidden at brother’s house, 155

  loot hidden at cemetery, 155, 157, 173, 178, 212

  meeting on day after heist, 86

  mockery of Collins, 31

  motivation for Hatton Garden heist, 21

  at Old Wheatsheaf for jewel exchange, 184–185, 186–187

  planning Hatton Garden heist, 20–21, 55, 60, 62

  plans to dispose of jewelry, 155, 156–158, 177

  plans to move and exchange jewels, 177–180, 182–184

  purchase of new hydraulic pump ram, 81–82, 120, 195

  ransacking the vault, 84–85

  on regular jobs vs. crime, 21–22

  return to Hatton Garden on Sunday, 83–84

  Rocket, his dog, 2, 21, 59, 178, 184, 220

  sentencing, 226–227, 247

  worry about division of loot, 154–155, 159, 172–173

  Jones, Matthew, 22

  Kamara, Keefa Raymond, xiii, 63, 69, 76–77

  Katz, Emiel, 44

  Katz, George, 44–45, 46–47

  E Katz & Co Ltd, 44–45, 72

  Kean, Robert, 32

  Kensit, Patsy, 42

  Kerr, Sharon, 94

  Killer (Seiga), 225

  Kinch, Christopher, 209, 210, 213, 244–245, 246

  King of Thieves (movie), 244

  Knight, Ronnie, 35

  Korner, Joanna, 237, 238, 247

  Kostić, Zoran, 108–109

  Kray twins, 12, 25, 33, 35, 61, 92, 174

  Lane, Kevin, 30–31, 61, 243

  Lange, Jessica, 192

  Larkins, “Little Legs,” 11, 14, 158

  Lashmar, Paul, 11–12, 48–49

  “Leading Britain’s Conversation” (LBC, radio show), 102, 131, 148

  Lee-Enfield rifle, 53

  Lewis, Katya, 66–67, 67

  Lichtenstein, Rachel, 42, 43

  Lincoln, William (“Billy the Fish”)

  about, 126–127, 172

  arrest, 189, 202, 223

  asking Harbinson to transport goods for storage, 86, 126, 172, 178, 207, 220, 225

  driving Reader to London Bridge station, 80, 222

  at Old Wheatsheaf for jewel exchange, 185, 187

  sentencing, 226–227

  stolen goods transported and stored, 126, 172, 207, 220, 222

  trial, 207, 220–223, 226–227

  Lionel J Wiffen Ltd Fine Jewellery, 65

  lip-reading, 111, 136–138

  Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (movie), 82

  London City Metals Scrap Company, 174, 175, 176, 235–236, 237

  London Diamond Bourse, 42, 43–44

  Luckhurst, John, 214, 226

  Lundy, Tony, 8, 14–15

  Lynch, Jeremiah, 91, 92

  Machine Mart, 82, 195

  Macmillan, Harold, 198

  Madison Diamond and Wedding Rings, 62, 73

  Magill, Robert, 61

  Malik, Zayn, 150

  Manchester City, 141

  Manchester United, 141

  Mann, Geoffrey, 49

  Marchant, Rick, 100

 

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