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Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Heist......
Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Heist......
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they wouldn't have done the job if they thought they would bring something upon themselves that they couldn't handle.
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they aren't dimwits.
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Got to be a muslim gang of robbers.
Probably from Rotherham or Sheffield or anywhere really. Police don't want to be seen as causing disharmony, so let it go. |
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thanks tictac, does anyone know about these industrial drills?, able to drill through 6ft thick walls.!!
that alone must have been some feat of engineering ! |
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look at mememe - some people so utterly obsessed by the race issue they'll introduce it into anything. do one u eejit.
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mememe's life must be absolutely dominated by fear blecks
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'fear of blecks'
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desperatemunter,
I take it then you know who did it. Lot of intense posting by you ... it wasn't you, was it? Go on, tell us. We can keep a secret on the forum. |
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The Adams family will be annoyed
Londons most criminal gang who reign round there Contracts will be issued Shoot on sight  |
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sorry for being offensive mememew. uncalled for.
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desperatemunter,
I've just won a few quid on the 16.20 at Leopardstown so I feel I can forgive you. Your humility is appreciated ... but I wouldn't make a habit of it on the Betfair forums - you'll get eaten alive. It really is a jungle. Living proof of Darwinism at its finest.  |
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you're very right there . i'm no good at hostilities its not my style at all.
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I've just acheived a winning position in the goalfest currently underway at old Trafford. Cheers to us and trebles all round.
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You can't trust CCTV footage, they can doctor it.
59 isn't old, and I haven't got grey hair. |
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59 is one foot in the grave
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Police are believed to have identified one of the men behind the jewel heist in Hatton Garden, as it was revealed the gang could have been inspired by similar robberies in Los Angeles in the 1980s.
Officers from Scotland Yard's Flying Squad released images of three suspects on Saturday, but refused to release a picture of the supposed ringleader, likely because he has already been identified The diamond-tipped drills were taken from a building site in Fetter Lane, an eight minute walk from Hatton Garden. City of London Police also confirmed today that they have passed information to Scotland Yard about the theft of two Hilti drills, the same devices used in the Hatton Garden raid, in December last year. In another development, The Sun has revealed that £80,000 worth of diamond tipped drills were stolen from another site in South London in November, using a van similar to that at Hatton Garden. Could the net be closing in....... |
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Nah.
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The Hilti drills - identical to the model used in the Hatton Garden raid - along with drill bits and other cutting equipment were stolen from a building site on Fetter Lane on December 1.
CCTV captured two Ford vans suspected of being linked to the theft and two suspects seen near the scene of the crime. Jeremy Lewington, the operations manager of Elmcrest Diamond Drilling, said the equipment was highly specialist and only a few hundred people in the UK were trained to operate it. He said: “Someone obviously knew what they were looking for when they took these drills. Whoever did this robbery knew what they were doing, it was obviously well planned. “It was a specialist job and needed people with the right training. The number of people who can do this is limited to maybe a few hundred in this country and maybe 500 to 600 in Europe.” He said the drills were designed to cut through concrete and steel. A City police spokesman said: “Since the robbery at Hatton Gardens, the City of London Police have been in contact with the Metropolitan Police about the thefts.” Scotland Yard has released CCTV images of only three of up to six members of the gang involved in the raid. |
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Police have offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of all those involved in the Hatton Garden safety deposit burglary.
Detectives released for the first time an image of the Hilti DD350 drill that was used during the burglary. The power tool was used by a gang of six men captured on CCTV carrying out the audacious raid over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend. Appearing on the BBC's Crimewatch, Detective Superintendent Craig Turner, head of the Flying Squad, said that the theft had been carried out by an "almost Ocean's 11 type team". Mr Turner said: "This was a particularly ambitious burglary to say the least and has affected so many victims. "People's property has been taken, people's pensions, people's heirlooms which obviously can't be replaced by insurance firms. "We may well be misled - this is carried out by an almost Ocean's 11 type team, but in essence there are victims behind this and these are callous thieves." Mr Turner appealed for members of the public who may have been in the Hatton Garden area during the theft and who may have seen anything suspicious to come forward. Describing the drill that had been found at the scene as a "specialised bit of equipment", he called for members of the criminal community who may have seen the gang in possession of it to get in touch. There are still six victims who have not been identified yet by police, Mr Turner said. "I appeal to any of those victims who haven't been contacted by police to contact the incident room," he added. The extraordinary raid was executed at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company over four days between Thursday April 2 and Sunday April 5. It was only discovered when staff returned on Tuesday April 7 following the long Bank Holiday break. Officers believe the gang entered the building, which houses a number of businesses, through a communal entrance before disabling the lift so they could climb down the lift shaft to the basement. They forced open shutter doors and bored a hole 20in (50cm) deep, 10in (25cm) high, and 18in (45cm) into the vault wall where they then had free access to the safety deposit boxes. A total of 72 boxes were opened during the burglary, with reports that the contents may have been worth as much as £60 million. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard is reviewing why officers were not sent to investigate an intruder alarm set off at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit shortly after midnight on the Friday. A call was received by the force's Computer Aided Despatch system from the security company but no police response was deemed necessary. Like we needed more proof that the police force are not fit for purpose. |
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Looks like they might have done the same thing in Berlin in 2013......
Dramatic images which reveal the daring methods used by thieves during the £60m Hatton Garden heist have raised further questions about whether the culprits carried out a similarly-audacious raid on a Berlin bank two years earlier. Pictures released by Scotland Yard this morning, nearly three weeks after the incident, reveal the gaping 50-cm deep hole which the suspects carefully drilled into the vault's concrete wall so they could access the goldmine of gems over the Easter weekend. The photo is almost identical to the image released by German police following an unsolved raid on the Volksbank in 2013, when thieves escaped with a £8.3m haul of diamonds, gold and silver after cutting through a 3ft wall into the bank's strongroom and ransacking 294 security vaults. Today, former flying squad detective Jim Dickie said he had 'little doubt' that Scotland Yard detectives would be liaising with their German counterparts about the Berlin raid as a 'legitimate line of enquiry'. The German thieves dressed as workmen and and waited until staff went home for the weekend to enter the bank. The tunnel was not discovered until 6am on the Monday morning when the robbers set fire to the impressive tunnel which breached one of the bank's walls. The robbers then simply used crowbars to smash open the safety deposit boxes. CCTV from the London heist also shows how the suspects dressed as construction workers and gasmen. Similarly, they timed their raid over the Easter bank holiday, entering after the premises emptied on Thursday night and leaving on Easter Sunday. Meanwhile, in Berlin, police believe the robbers may have spent weeks digging the tunnel after renting a nearby lock-up garage under a false name, which they used to gain access to the strongroom. One of the theories behind the London jewel heist is that a member of the gang had rented a space within the premises. The Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company is housed in a seven-storey building, which accommodates 60 other businesses, including watch traders and diamond wholesalers. Peter Kirkham, a former DCI with the Met Police who worked for the Flying Squad for five years in the mid-90s, said the photos supported his belief that the London heist 'reeked' of an inside job. He said: 'We were told that that they went in five or 10 minutes after the last member of staff came out, and not even a two-bit burglar would do something like that, let alone somebody attempting something like this. It stinks of an inside agent. 'And it's more their confidence that they would not be disturbed. I mean I have never seen a job where they have taken a break, had a day off, and come back.' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3050458/Inside-Hatton-Garden-gem-heist-Pictures-reveal-audacious-thieves-drilled-concrete-wall-left-dozens-deposit-boxes-strewn-floor.html#ixzz3YBmGrIeH |
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looked like they knew what boxes to go for
hopefully have it covered with some documents done nothing wrong imo , old timers classic will be a film in the future also the ones in the 70s might take the wrap to keep the younger ones out it |
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Big_Issue
08 Apr 15 20:22 Joined: 16 Jun 04 | Topic/replies: 3,659 | Blogger: Big_Issue's blog Jason Statham plays the ring-leader in the film (nap) The robbery reminded me of this film instantly |
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I can't find a film called 'Instantly'
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