Carl Wood, William Lincoln and Hugh Doyle were connected to the 14-million-pounds Hatton Garden jewellery raid in central London in 2015.
London:
Three men were on Thursday found guilty of involvement in one of the largest jewellery heists in British legal history, raiding a 14-million-pounds safe deposit vault.
Carl Wood, William Lincoln and Hugh Doyle were connected to the 14-million-pounds Hatton Garden jewellery raid in central London in 2015, a jury at Woolwich Crown Court ruled.
During the raid the gang used heavy cutting equipment to get into a vault at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd and ransack 56 safe deposit boxes.
CCTV footage showed some of the gang members arriving in a white van and unloading tools, on April 2.
However, they were unable to gain access to the vault after discovering it was blocked off by a metal cabinet.
They returned with different equipment two nights later to finish the job.
Once inside, they used the lift shaft to access the basement, disabled the alarm and bored through the vault wall.
They were eventually seen emerging from the building with holdalls and wheelie bins laden with stolen goods.
Gold, diamonds and sapphires, together worth up to 14 million pounds, were taken. Two thirds of the valuables remain unrecovered.
Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Craig Turner said: "The weight of evidence was so strong that half the gang chose to plead guilty.
"It was an audacious, brazen burglary that was some three years in the planning."
The Metropolitan police are offering a 20,000 pounds reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of another man, known as "Basil", who is still wanted in connection with the raid.
The trio found guilty on Thursday will be sentenced in March.
Carl Wood, William Lincoln and Hugh Doyle were connected to the 14-million-pounds Hatton Garden jewellery raid in central London in 2015, a jury at Woolwich Crown Court ruled.
During the raid the gang used heavy cutting equipment to get into a vault at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd and ransack 56 safe deposit boxes.
CCTV footage showed some of the gang members arriving in a white van and unloading tools, on April 2.
However, they were unable to gain access to the vault after discovering it was blocked off by a metal cabinet.
They returned with different equipment two nights later to finish the job.
Once inside, they used the lift shaft to access the basement, disabled the alarm and bored through the vault wall.
They were eventually seen emerging from the building with holdalls and wheelie bins laden with stolen goods.
Gold, diamonds and sapphires, together worth up to 14 million pounds, were taken. Two thirds of the valuables remain unrecovered.
Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Craig Turner said: "The weight of evidence was so strong that half the gang chose to plead guilty.
"It was an audacious, brazen burglary that was some three years in the planning."
The Metropolitan police are offering a 20,000 pounds reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of another man, known as "Basil", who is still wanted in connection with the raid.
The trio found guilty on Thursday will be sentenced in March.
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