Hatton Garden heist: From 'Billy the Fish' to 'The Governor', the men behind the heist
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Three men have been convicted of involvement in the Hatton Garden raid, believed to the largest burglary in British legal history, in which jewellery and valuables worth an estimated £14 million were stolen.
Here are the profiles of the men involved:
Brian Reader, 76 (pleaded guilty)
The oldest of the Hatton Garden raiders, and an experienced criminal, he was referred to as the "Master" or "Governor" by his conspirators.
Reader was involved in the planning of the burglary and was present at the meetings before and after the event.
Although Reader was at the vault on the first night of the raid, he did not return for the second.
(Freedom Pass) Oyster Card records show that on the evening of April 2, he boarded the 96 bus from near his home in Dartford, before exiting Waterloo East station. From there he caught the 55 bus to St John Street - about a five-minute walk from Hatton Garden.
Reader did not appear to have owned a mobile phone and may have used his son Paul Reader's mobile to contact others involved in the conspiracy.
When his home address in Dartford Road, Dartford, was searched, detectives seized a book on the diamond underworld, a diamond tester, a diamond gauge, diamond magazines and a distinctive scarf which he can be seen wearing on CCTV at Hatton Garden on April 2/3.
He used an Oyster Card Freedom Pass belonging to someone else to get to Hatton Garden on the night of the raid.
Reader was involved in the 1983 Brinks Mat gold heist, and also has connections with one of Britain's most notorious criminals, Kenneth Noye.
On November 26 1983 a gang of masked robbers carried out Britain's largest ever robbery at London's Heathrow Airport, taking gold bullion worth £26 million.
Six armed robbers posing as security guards raided the high-security facility after dousing a security guard with petrol and threatening to set him alight unless he opened the vault.
They escaped with 6,800 ingots weighing three tons as well as an assortment of travellers' cheques and diamonds in what was dubbed the crime of the century.
Some of the gains ended up in Noye's hands, and he was jailed for 14 years for his crime.
To this day, much of the stolen bullion remains unrecovered.
After escaping from Heathrow with their haul, the robbers needed help to turn the gold into clean cash, and one of the people they turned to was Noye.
He was an expert in his field, and paid such attention to detail that he even mixed some of the gold with copper coins to change its purity and disguise its origins.
Reader was jailed for eight years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods after the raid.
He was also sentenced to a further year's imprisonment for dishonestly handling £66,000 in cash.
John Kenneth Collins, 75 (pleaded guilty)
Collins was one of the ringleaders instrumental in the planning of the raid.
In the months leading up to the raid, he visited Hatton Garden several times for reconnaissance. He was also responsible for driving the van to and from the scene.
During the raid itself, he acted as lookout, keeping watch on 88-90 Hatton Garden from across the road, ready to raise the alarm with a walkie-talkie.
But in a covertly recorded conversation, Jones claims that Collins fell asleep on the job.
Collins - who lives with William Lincoln's sister - recruited Hugh Doyle, having been friends with him for more than a decade.
Collins drove a white Mercedes that was caught on CCTV driving bags of loot away from the scene of the exchange at the Old Wheatsheaf pub on May 19. It was also one of the two cars bugged by detectives.
Police searches of Collins's home in Bletsoe Walk, Islington, recovered a large amount of cash, wrist watches, coins, jewellery and a money counter.
Collins has a Staffordshire bull terrier called Dempsey.
He also has six previous convictions for thefts and other similar offences, dating back to 1961. In total he was sentenced to 13 years and six months' imprisonment for them.
Terrence Perkins, 67 (pleaded guilty)
Perkins celebrated his birthday during the raid and was involved in all stages of the operation, including disposing of the stolen goods.
He drove a blue Citroen Saxo that police placed recording devices in after the raid.
He was inside the Hatton Garden building posing as a builder and "working" inside the lift on March 31.
Diabetic Perkins claimed to have taken enough insulin to last him three days in the vault.
When his address in Heene Road, Enfield, was searched, police found jewellery, cash, blue overalls, five pairs of white fabric gloves and a quantity of euros.
After the raid, it was decided that on May 19 the loot would be taken back to an address linked to Perkins in Sterling Road, Enfield, and then divvied up.
Perkins has a long history of criminal activity and was jailed for 22 years for robbing the vaults of Securicor, also known as Security Express, on April 4 1983.
After serving part of his sentence, Perkins was given temporary release from prison but failed to return after this expired. He was convicted in relation to this in July 2011 and sentenced to four weeks' imprisonment. He was eventually released from prison on February 7 2012.
On Easter Monday 1983 a gang broke into the Security Express depot in Shoreditch, east London, and escaped with £6 million.
The robbery was masterminded by John Knight, the brother of Ronnie Knight, the former husband of actress Dame Barbara Windsor.
Daniel Jones, 60 (pleaded guilty)
Jones was another of the ringleaders and was at the heart of the planning, regularly meeting with the others - particularly Perkins and Collins - before and after the Easter weekend.
As part of the planning, Jones was allegedly in frequent contact with Carl Wood, updating him on the plan. The two had been friends for decades and would often go on walks during which they would discuss "guy things".
Jones was at the burglary throughout and was instrumental in gaining access to the vault. After the first-night failure, Jones and Collins drove to Twickenham to get more equipment.
He was caught on CCTV wearing an eccentric outfit during the raid, complete with striped trousers, a hi-vis waistcoat, red trainers and a navy baseball cap.
He, along with mystery man "Basil", actually climbed through the hole that had been bored into the vault door.
Police found a box of dust masks, the book Forensics For Dummies, a drill, balaclavas and a walkie-talkie at his house.
Jones later confessed to police that he had hidden his share of loot in an Edmonton cemetery, and led them to the smaller of two stashes he had secreted at the site. Unbeknown to him, detectives had already discovered his treasure and knew he was not being honest with them.
Giving evidence at trial, Wood described Jones as "eccentric to extremes" and said he would sleep in his mother's sleeping bag and a fez.
Wood also said that his friend was obsessed with his terrier, Rocket, and would speak to it as if it were human.
Jones, of Park Avenue, Enfield, was described as having a keen interest in crime and the Army, and Wood said he would often sleep in a sleeping bag on the floor and relieve himself in a bottle.
The police would also discover in due course that he had hidden jewellery in a cemetery in Edmonton.
Analysis of Jones's computer revealed that in 2010 he had been researching core drilling equipment.
It also found that he had been researching drills since 2012, and in May 2014 he searched for the Hilti DD 350 drill, the same one used in the raid. He also visited sites such as drillsonline and drilltech.co.uk. In 2012, Jones also researched the price of gold and diamonds.
He has nine previous convictions for similar offences - robberies, thefts and burglaries - dating back to 1975 and has been sentenced to a total of 23 years' imprisonment for them.
Carl Wood, 58 (convicted)
The prosecution alleged that Wood was the man identified as Male F in CCTV footage of the raid.
The character in the footage was present on both sides of the raid, but walked away on the second - before access was gained to the vault - after discovering the fire escape was locked.
Wood, a married father of two adult daughters, had known Jones for 30 years, and they first became friends over their mutual interest in keeping fit.
However, after he was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, aged 24, he had to cut back on his activities, and instead he would go on walks with "caring, sensitive" Jones.
Jurors heard that at the time of the raid Wood - who was on disability pension - was riddled with personal debt.
However, he claimed that at the time of the burglary he was at a family barbecue, and that he had spent the other night at home in Cheshunt, Herts, with his wife Paula.
It took Mrs Wood six months to go to the authorities with her alibi.
William Lincoln, 60 (convicted)
Lincoln is alleged to have controlled the stolen goods and arranged for them to be taken to Jones and Collins.
After the exchange he was stopped in the black Audi A3 he was driving, arrested and taken to a police station, where he wet himself in custody.
Jurors heard that while Lincoln, also known as "Billy the Fish" was being stopped, he could be seen leaning over the front seat of his. A subsequent search discovered a piece of paper that contained the address for the Old Wheatsheaf pub.
During his evidence, Lincoln conceded that he was "not the sharpest knife in the drawer" but also said he was not a "divvo".
Lincoln suffers from sleep apnoea, bladder issues and severe osteoarthritis which has seen him have a double hip replacement. As a result of his ailments, he is unable to work and is in receipt of disability living allowance and employment support allowance.
Lincoln, of Winkley Street, Bethnal Green, east London, earned the name "Billy the Fish" because he supplied his family and friends with seafood he bought from Billingsgate market.
When asked what he had been doing in the early hours of Good Friday last year, he said he had been visiting the market - as he did every Friday. Among the fish he regularly bought and took to his family were eels for his mother, who lives in Essex. But depending on what his friends and family would ask him for, he would also buy dover sole, cod, haddock or skate.
Hugh Doyle, 48 (found guilty)
"Hughie", who has a close relationship with Collins, is said to have allowed the gang to transfer the stolen goods from one car to another in the car park next to his plumber's business - Associated Response.
The Irish father of two only stood trial over the laundering offence, and was not tried for conspiracy to commit burglary.
Doyle, of Riverside Gardens, Enfield, was the only defendant on bail and would happily talk to the press and officers throughout the case. He wore his work uniform to court everyday, and would sit in the dock taking notes.
Jurors heard that he had known Collins, Perkins and Reader for a number of years, and would often go drinking with them in pubs near Hatton Garden.
'Basil' (still at large)
A man who is yet to be identified, known only as Basil, unlocked the doors to Hatton Garden Safe Deposit and let the raiders into the building.
The red-haired bandit can be seen on the CCTV footage - obscuring his face from cameras with a black bag - on both nights of the raid.
The defence argued that Basil must have been somebody who had detailed knowledge of the building and where the surveillance cameras were located.
PA
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