Hatton Garden jewellery thief dies in jail
The judge handling the case said number of the defendants were not only “of a certain age, but have in some cases serious health problem”
Terry Perkins, one of the gang members involved with the Hatton Garden jewellery raid, has died in prison aged 69.
He was one of the four ringleaders behind the notorious robbery and his death comes just one week after the gang was ordered to pay a total fine of £27.5m or spend seven more years in jail.
The men drilled a hole in the wall of a vault at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit in Easter 2015. The raid was labelled as the “largest burglary in English legal history” and two thirds of the valuables still have not been recovered.
According to reports Perkins was serving his sentence in HMP Belmarsh and is believed to have been ill for some time.
The prison service said: “As with all deaths in custody, there will be an independent investigation by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.”
