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.
However, they were unable to gain access to the vault after discovering it was blocked off by a metal cabinet.
Once inside, they used the lift shaft to access the basement, disabled the alarm and bored through the vault wall.
Gold, diamonds and sapphires, together worth up to 14 million pounds, were taken. Two thirds of the valuables remain unrecovered.
"It was an audacious, brazen burglary that was some three years in the planning."
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.
However, they were unable to gain access to the vault after discovering it was blocked off by a metal cabinet.
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Once inside, they used the lift shaft to access the basement, disabled the alarm and bored through the vault wall.
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Gold, diamonds and sapphires, together worth up to 14 million pounds, were taken. Two thirds of the valuables remain unrecovered.
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"It was an audacious, brazen burglary that was some three years in the planning."
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The trio found guilty on Thursday will be sentenced in March.
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