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
