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Robbery & theft · 2015 · 2010s

Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Burglary

Over the Easter weekend of 2015 a gang of elderly career criminals broke into an underground vault in Hatton Garden, London's jewellery quarter, stealing an estimated £14 to £20 million in valuables. Several were caught after police bugged their vehicles.

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