Hatton Garden heist ringleader Danny Jones enjoys afternoon stroll after being released from jail
Hatton Garden heist ringleader Danny Jones enjoys afternoon stroll after being released from jail – with two-thirds of £14m haul from the brazen raid still missing
Jones, 66, was released from HMP Hollesley Bay after serving three sentences By March last year, he had repaid £548,218.47 of his share from the heistOnly Michael ‘Basil the Ghost’ Seed, 60, and John ‘Kenny’ Collins, 81, are in jail
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Hatton Garden raider Daniel Jones has enjoyed his first taste of freedom
Hatton Garden raider Daniel Jones has enjoyed his first taste of freedom after completing his three sentences without revealing where the majority of the £14million haul is still hidden.
The veteran robber, 66, has finished the third of his sentences imposed for the 2015 heist.
He was released from HMP Hollesley Bay in Suffolk this week and was later seen taking a stroll near his home in Enfield, The Mirror reported.
Jones was given seven years for the burglary and a further three years in 2018 for an earlier heist on a Mayfair jewellers.
The criminal was then given an extra six years and 287 days after failing to pay back the millions from the Hatton Garden theft.
By March 2020, Jones had repaid £548,218.47 of his share and police say two thirds of the total bounty is still unrecovered.
Only Michael ‘Basil the Ghost’ Seed, 60, and John ‘Kenny’ Collins, 81, remain in jail from the notorious robbery team.
The veteran robber, 66, has finished the third of his sentences imposed for the 2015 heist in which they drilled a hole into a vault (pictured)
Jones (right, pictured with ‘Basil’ during the heist) was given seven years for the burglary and a further three years in 2018 for an earlier heist on a Mayfair jewellers
Last year, a judge ruled that the mastermind of the heist, Brian Reader, 81, will not return to jail because he is too unwell, despite him only handing over six per cent of his £6.6million share.
It is understood he is still living at his Dartford home.
The crooks, along with Terry Perkins, who died in prison aged 69, were slapped with one of the biggest confiscation orders in Scotland Yard’s history.
They owe a joint £5.75million, which prosecutors say is available in hidden assets from unrecovered jewellery, gold, gems and cash, as well as individual additional amounts from realisable assets such as properties in the UK and abroad.
The burglars carried out the heist on the four-day weekend of the Easter Bank Holiday in 2015, when many of the nearby businesses were closed.
The burglars carried out the heist on the four-day weekend of the Easter Bank Holiday in 2015
It was reported that the burglars had entered the premises through a lift shaft, then drilled through the 50cm thick vault walls with a Hilti power drill.
The theft was so significant that the investigation was assigned to the Flying Squad, a branch of the MPS’ Specialist, Organised and Economic Crime Command.
It is the subject of three feature films including 2018’s King of Thieves, starring Michael Caine, Ray Winstone, and Michael Gambon.
Jones had previous convictions for burglary, theft, robbery and handling stolen goods.
A CCTV image shows Hatton Garden thieves John Collins, Terry Perkins and Brian Reader in the Castle Public House on Pentonville Road
He wrote to Sky News in 2015 saying he would lead police to the location of a stash of jewels hidden in a cemetery, saying ‘that’s all I had’.
But unbeknown to him, officers had already found jewels and he led them to a separate, smaller stash and said that was all he had in his possession.
Prosecutors argued he did not tell the truth about the location of the hoard.
Jones was said to be so institutionalised having spent most of his adult life inside a prison cell, that he referred to evenings as ‘bang up’ and refused visitors or phone calls after 5pm.
He would also sleep in a sleeping bag on his bedroom floor rather than in bed with his partner Valerie.
