FIVE villains from the “Diamond Wheezers” Hatton Garden heist gang have paid back just £8k each of their £14 million ill-gotten gains over the last three years.
Six robbers were filmed removing wheelie bins full of gold and jewels over the 2015 Easter weekend in what became one of the biggest raids of the 21st century.
Crooks from left: Daniel Jones, Terry Perkins and Brian ReaderPA:Press Association
Now new Freedom of Information figures released to The Sun on Sunday show five of the robbers – two of whom have since died – have made repayments of just £8,000 each.
That’s the equivalent of a paltry £40,000 in total over the last three years with the CPS confirming “hidden assets” remain outstanding in the case with the court deeming the defendants know where they are.
Previously, lookout John “Kenny Collins, 84, returned £1,347,436.43 (or £1.35million) of the £7.6 million he trousered from the raid.
But since 2022 progress has been slow with only £8,000 extra being handed over.
After being freed in late 2018 having served less than half of a seven-year sentence he was sent back to jail in 2019 for a further seven years for refusing to hand back his share of the heist.
While alarm expert Michael Seed, 65, has coughed up just £55,222 from a whopping £5.6 million he pocketed from the robbery.
Again, an increase of just £8k since 2022.
He was originally jailed for ten years in March 2019 but was handed a further six-and-a-half year jail term in 2023 for failing to pay back his loot.
Ringleader Danny Jones, 70, played by Ray Winstone and Phil Daniels in two films, has paid back just £646,788.61 of the near £6.2 million he owes.
He has also returned an additional £8,000 over the last three years – but nothing more.
Originally sentenced to seven years he was given an extra six years and 287 days for failing to pay back the millions he made from the raid but was released in February 2022.
Fellow raiders, Brian Reader and Terry Perkins, who have both since died, also made derisory £8k payments each over the last three years.
Mastermind Reader, played by Michael Caine in one of several movies about the burglary, succumbed to cancer in 2023, aged 83.
He had paid back £513,766.99 of a £6.1 million proceeds of crime demand.
Perkins died of heart failure in his jail cell at Belmarsh in February 2018.
He paid back just £387, 772.31 of his almost £6.5 million criminal benefit from the raid.
A Crown Prosecution Service spokeswoman, said: “No convicted criminal should profit from their crimes and the Hatton Garden burglars have paid back more than £3 million of what they stole.
“We have taken four of the burglars back to court after they failed to pay their full orders, resulting in three of them receiving significant additional jail time.
“While all UK assets have now been realised, we continue our work with partner agencies to trace the proceeds of this crime and go after any remaining hidden assets.”
Hatton Garden heist gang lookout John ‘Kenny’ CollinsPA:Press Association
Ray Collins – The SunThe robbery at Hatton Garden Safety Deposit vault[/caption]
Dan Jones – The SunInside the vault in Hatton Garden[/caption]
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PA:Press AssociationThe vault door at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit[/caption]
PA:Press AssociationPolice video surveillance of John Collins, Terry Perkins and Brian Reader in the Castle Public House, Pentonville Road[/caption] Published: [#item_custom_pubDate]
