Jury retires to consider verdicts in Hatton Garden burglary trial

Court case: four men have been tried at Woolwich Crown Court
Metropolitan Police
Hannah Al-Othman13 January 2016
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Jurors have retired to consider their verdicts in the trial of four men accused of plotting the Hatton Garden raid.

Jewellery and valuables worth an estimated £14 million were stolen in the heist, which is believed to be the largest burglary in British legal history.

A gang of thieves carried out the "sophisticated" and meticulously planned break-in over the Easter weekend last year.

The group used a drill to bore a hole 20in deep, 10in high and 18in wide into the wall of a vault in London's jewellery quarter, before ransacking 73 safety deposit boxes.

A number of men have already pleaded guilty to their part in the audacious burglary at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company.

Four other defendants went on trial in November at Woolwich Crown Court.

Carl Wood, 58, of Elderbeck Close, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire; William Lincoln, 60, of Winkley Street, Bethnal Green, east London; and Jon Harbinson, 42, of Beresford Gardens, Benfleet, Essex all face the same charge of conspiracy to commit burglary.

A fourth man, Hugh Doyle, 48, of Riverside Gardens, Enfield, north London, is jointly charged with them on one count of conspiracy to conceal, convert or transfer criminal property between January and May last year.

He also faces an alternative charge of concealing, converting or transferring criminal property between April and May.

The jury will resume its deliberations at midday on Thursday.

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