'Basil' the mystery man who initially evaded capture, was the guy who disabled the alarm and had the front door keys. He was the smartest one out of the lot. He was an off grid, very private and cash only kind of guy, who didnt have an official job, didnt use phones, had a full face mask and wig on and avoided cameras during the heist. He was eventually only caught after police scanned hours of surveillance footage of the rest of the gang and noticed a guy who had the same height, build and gait as 'Basil' from the vault cctv and took a chance. When they raided his flat, they found 150k worth of gold, cash and jewels along with smelting equipment. He pled not guilty and got the longest sentence out of everyone. His name was Michael Seed and he was the some of a Cambridge academic. If it wasn't for that idiot Collins, using his OWN DAMN CAR instead of the untraceable white van they had arranged specifically for the job, and that other fool using his own name to purchase tools, the police wouldnt have had any leads to go on and they would have got away!
He's the one who lead them to basil too and I'm pretty sure he turned against them all and grassed them all up,also I'm sure that he's the one who brought in billy Lincoln which made the gang turn against each other none of them thought he was trust worthy and they shouldn't have trusted him
@@robertblack3867 They were caught because they didn't understand phones, cameras, and laptops. That's why they were digitial criminals in an analogue world.
they purposefully targeted the bank holiday, where they knew the place was shut from Friday night through to Tuesday morning. any normal week obviously the place would have been open on the Saturday and they'd have never been able to return the next day as they'd have found the crime scene. this could only be carried out on a bank holiday where no-one is there for a few days.
@@JC-ko1bp That's still incredible though. The stuff stored there is worth just a much during a bank holiday as during the week. How much would it cost them to have one or two guards make a round throught the building every few hours? Even just a single visit during that time could have prevented the heist.
@@P1nkR it is ridiculous.... but they had what they thought was an impenetrable vault... and the best alarm system so the robbers wouldnt ever get to the vault anyway. i mean these guys made some embarrassing errors, but what they did manage to do was nothing short of genius and to this day they have no idea who they disabled that alarm. still dont know how they got a key, and obviously were massively let down by the security team who never bothered to go inside and the police who never showed up. so they were paying a guard to go round if the alarm sent an SMS, which it did.
Well, apart from those who lost their future securities and a chance to enjoy a happy retirement. But yes somehow we love the underdog, though I'd have hated to have been a victim.
@@soulbass2714 Wrong. On the 4th Feb this year, The Sun posted an article discussing the gang/Basil and essentially admitted that Basils identity is still unknown.
When the white van first arrives on CCTV (5:53) it's something like a Fiat Ducato or Renault Trafic with a roof rack. It's described as being driven by Collins. When it returns (7:08) it's a Ford Transit without a roof rack, but apparently still driven by Collins... this was not explained.
@@mcfcguvnors nobody got it. they bugged the car and the whole gang are in it talking about the heist. not to mention the car belonged to a notorious criminal
Like the Brink's-Mat curse i can see lots of people being bumped off by assassins creeping into their houses in the middle of the night and turning their heating down.
"He went on the Hatton Garden Raid on a free travel pass....... it wasn't even his own." OMG!!! That sent a shiver down my spine. What a psychopath......
That hardly makes him in psychopath, yeah he was a notorious robber but he wasn't a murderer or sicko, and I'm sure there a thousands of people who travel everyday on fake bus passes....
@@davielefthook I actually do understand sarcasm, it's only when I actually read it back that I understood it was sarcasm, I totally misread the comment. I genuinely thought he was being serious 😬😬 my bad !
Brian Reader and his son parked across the entrance to my yard about 7 years ago. They started wandering off to see someone else so I shouted at them to move their car. Brian spent far more time arguing about it than it would have taken him to move the car. It was only when I threatened him with the recovery lorry that he moved. A typical old school villain with a leery gob and an over inflated sense of entitlement.
Just watched the 2nd part of the drama series running on ITV about the heist, I think anyone who steals is a deluded fool, there's nothing on this planet worth stealing but I just can't help admiring these old fools for their shear audacity , it was an unbelievable job they pulled off, they didn't kill anyone only their own souls, they didn't injure, threaten , maim or upset anyone except the insurance companies , they were idiots but damm clever idiots.
I don't understand why vaults like this don't just have 24-hour monitoring. It wouldn't necessarily need to be someone sitting in one spot, it could be someone who just checks in every few hours or someone taking an occasional look at a camera feed.
The reason for no camera security was because many of the items in the safety deposit boxes were stolen items. The people who stored them did not want cameras filming their identity.
It genuinely devastates me they got caught! I've followed Brian Reader for a long time and would have been pleased for him,and them all to pull their one last job off and retire to the good life bless em
I love that this was a real oceans eleven. Didn't require violence to do the job, clever as hell, and successful. These older gentlemen pulled off an amazing plan.
Has anybody considered the buzz factor alone being involved in the venture? The risk is always there, but the excitement of challenge can be overpowering, and all-consuming to some!
Some people become so institutionalised, after a few stretches, or find reality too much to deal with they prefer prison. It gives them routine, they have almost zero responsibility and they’ll have someone always thinking about them-not always a guarantee outside. Wonder if one or two of these lads wanted to get caught?
All that stuff and the company couldn't afford to pay for an onsite security guard ?? Doesn't seem right .The company could've raked in the insurance or shared in the loot themselves .
did the extremely hard bit.... fucked up the easy bit of not using your own car and not buying a hydraulic ram in your own name and leaving it in there. however without the car, i dont think theyd have ever been caught
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'Basil' the mystery man who initially evaded capture, was the guy who disabled the alarm and had the front door keys. He was the smartest one out of the lot. He was an off grid, very private and cash only kind of guy, who didnt have an official job, didnt use phones, had a full face mask and wig on and avoided cameras during the heist.
He was eventually only caught after police scanned hours of surveillance footage of the rest of the gang and noticed a guy who had the same height, build and gait as 'Basil' from the vault cctv and took a chance. When they raided his flat, they found 150k worth of gold, cash and jewels along with smelting equipment. He pled not guilty and got the longest sentence out of everyone. His name was Michael Seed and he was the some of a Cambridge academic.
If it wasn't for that idiot Collins, using his OWN DAMN CAR instead of the untraceable white van they had arranged specifically for the job, and that other fool using his own name to purchase tools, the police wouldnt have had any leads to go on and they would have got away!
He's the one who lead them to basil too and I'm pretty sure he turned against them all and grassed them all up,also I'm sure that he's the one who brought in billy Lincoln which made the gang turn against each other none of them thought he was trust worthy and they shouldn't have trusted him
"Analog criminals operating in a digital world" Perfect conclusion.
AAron Thom ...Lol
To be fair a big slip up like them using their own car would have got them busted back in the day too.
Not really, they looted the place which was digital, they were just clumsy and careless.
@@robertblack3867 They were caught because they didn't understand phones, cameras, and laptops. That's why they were digitial criminals in an analogue world.
@@David-ud9ju Perhaps, but it was their clumsiness that did them in not technology.
He went on the bus to the heist with a free travel pass it wasn't even his own 😂😂
Kyle Barratt im creasing 😂😂😂😂😂
Salute ! Absolute chap !
Absolute mad lad!
And he had to leave early to make it to the 4 o'clock senior special at his favorite diner.
He got there on his own oap bus pass
“He went on the the Hatton Garden Raid on a free travel pass - it wasn’t even his own.” ABSOLUTE MAD LAD!!!
caught by using his or someone else's bus pass . a very British way to get arrested indeed ,hahaha !!
fair fuckin play to the old boys
chris emery ut is
they just went away for 24 hours, came back, did the robbery? Wow this is a world class safety deposit box facility.
Matt Hamilton I hope they were handed. Cup of tea on their return?😂😂😂
they purposefully targeted the bank holiday, where they knew the place was shut from Friday night through to Tuesday morning. any normal week obviously the place would have been open on the Saturday and they'd have never been able to return the next day as they'd have found the crime scene.
this could only be carried out on a bank holiday where no-one is there for a few days.
@@JC-ko1bp That's still incredible though. The stuff stored there is worth just a much during a bank holiday as during the week. How much would it cost them to have one or two guards make a round throught the building every few hours? Even just a single visit during that time could have prevented the heist.
@@P1nkR well yes but they deemed the vault theft proof. they never thought anyone could break into it if they allowed them to try.
@@P1nkR it is ridiculous.... but they had what they thought was an impenetrable vault... and the best alarm system so the robbers wouldnt ever get to the vault anyway.
i mean these guys made some embarrassing errors, but what they did manage to do was nothing short of genius and to this day they have no idea who they disabled that alarm. still dont know how they got a key, and obviously were massively let down by the security team who never bothered to go inside and the police who never showed up.
so they were paying a guard to go round if the alarm sent an SMS, which it did.
Amazing how they were so clever yet so dumb at the same time
Still is
Clever but not smart
As long as they don’t kill anybody I’m pretty sure the public always root for bank robbers 😂
Millwall Joey Olordy lordy no i always root my girlfriends to have babys to get more centrelink man
Just give up the money
@@patmartin7072 what a dumb pointless comment.
Well, apart from those who lost their future securities and a chance to enjoy a happy retirement.
But yes somehow we love the underdog, though I'd have hated to have been a victim.
Nice job lads🌚
Such a shame they didn’t get away with it.
Defo deserved the rewards for such a well executed robbery, just a shame they drink poison and talk too much
not sure why it's fair game they nick other people's stuff.
@@RiversRun597 who cares, its a badass story from history
anyone who robs banks i hope they get away just as long as the don't shoot or kill anyone have at it
Amen to that unlese if u have to tho to get away tho
u want then also to get away if ur money was in there?
WTH! that’s not how banking works.
It wasn’t a bank. Private deposit safe used by jewellers. Crumby thieves.
It’s stealing from individuals, not a bank. Peoples pension pots held in those boxes.
These Old Folks Just Made History..Salute 🙏🏼
Basil got away and is living like a king ,
He got nicked this week mate
@@soulbass2714 Wrong. On the 4th Feb this year, The Sun posted an article discussing the gang/Basil and essentially admitted that Basils identity is still unknown.
SEVENTEEN... basil appeared in court in March news.sky.com/story/final-hatton-garden-suspect-appears-in-court-accused-of-helping-elderly-gang-11308104
google - Michael seed - weird what comes up on the right hand side of the page - prince andrew !?! lmao
And the best of luck to him.
When the white van first arrives on CCTV (5:53) it's something like a Fiat Ducato or Renault Trafic with a roof rack. It's described as being driven by Collins. When it returns (7:08) it's a Ford Transit without a roof rack, but apparently still driven by Collins... this was not explained.
Noticed that myself
nice spot
£20.000 for information thats a poor reward lool
yet someone got it - cant convict on a cctv image of a car n the fact they bought a power tool
Precisely.
@@mcfcguvnors nobody got it.
they bugged the car and the whole gang are in it talking about the heist. not to mention the car belonged to a notorious criminal
The fact he gave his real name and address when buying the tools and their own car seems like someone wanted to make sure they took the fall.
Or were just monumentally incompetent and stupid.
Ocean's 65 - One last job.
😂😂😂😂 i died reading this made my day!!!
If these geezers knew anything about current technology THEN it would have been the perfect crime
Brilliant mini doc. More like this please!
no guns,no violence
Jeffrey Dohnger lol exactly
They could have been stealing sentimental items though.
👍
kev b no brains.
I wonder why they didn't use that defence in court?
"slept in his mothers dressing gown with a fezz hat on"I call that madness not eccentric
i call it normal
I call it every Tuesday night.
I call it normal, for these wet lettuce's
Nowadays that's what half of London wears.
Karl Nelson there was sum insest goin on there
I like how they used Brick Top from snatch to narrate his letter 😂
The 'r' in anpr is recognition not retrieval
I can always appreciate bank robbers as long as no one is harmed!
They’re really clever lol
Burglars... that's why the small sentences
Weird
Like the Brink's-Mat curse i can see lots of people being bumped off by assassins creeping into their houses in the middle of the night and turning their heating down.
Such a cool story. I actually kinda wish they got away woth it
Can't believe they made a mistake like using their own vehicles after otherwise pulling off a very intricate robbery!
They deserve a movie
They've got one it's called the hatton garden job haha
It's already out called king of thieves
King of thieves much better
Watch the bank job
Just watched the ITV Drama about these old geezers.
What was it called please?
"He went on the Hatton Garden Raid on a free travel pass....... it wasn't even his own."
OMG!!! That sent a shiver down my spine. What a psychopath......
That hardly makes him in psychopath, yeah he was a notorious robber but he wasn't a murderer or sicko, and I'm sure there a thousands of people who travel everyday on fake bus passes....
This comment clearly went over some people's heads 😂😂
had me in hysterics
@@brianclarke61993 Jesus Christ mate, I take it understanding sarcasm isn't a strong point of yours?
@@davielefthook I actually do understand sarcasm, it's only when I actually read it back that I understood it was sarcasm, I totally misread the comment. I genuinely thought he was being serious 😬😬 my bad !
Pretty hard to commit a crime like this nowadays modern technology, too hard not to leave a trail
Legends free them all up
They’re not there all idiots and they got court
@@grenadewarrior9334 court
@@Slippzy yeah they got court then they got the jail 😂
This needs to be made into a movie
+anUntouchable the Oceans cast would be about the right age by now
+anUntouchable Michael Caine's name is written all over it.
anUntouchable
ain't Larry lamb in it?
It is a movie. Its called One last heist.
This is some gta 5 stuff
They only doing what the diamond exploiters do in Africa stealing so no big deal
so true
2:13..why do i find that yellow pen way more interesting than the actual documentary?
Because you'd only watched 2 minutes and 13 seconds of the show at that point?
It was too advanced for this documentary
Brian Reader and his son parked across the entrance to my yard about 7 years ago. They started wandering off to see someone else so I shouted at them to move their car.
Brian spent far more time arguing about it than it would have taken him to move the car. It was only when I threatened him with the recovery lorry that he moved.
A typical old school villain with a leery gob and an over inflated sense of entitlement.
Should of pulled out a shotgun and the big mouth would become silent
A lie is a lie
Let’s give them a round of applause 👏
I saw the film the other day Michael cane bloody great film
UPDATE - Basil has been caught.. he had a distinct way of walking and CCTV was used to catch him.
'Sexy Beast'. 'Heist'. 'Rififi'. 'Bob le Flambeur'...
How many times have I seen this movie? And yet it never gets old.
Is that Bricktop providing the voice-over towards the end? "Feed 'im to the pigs, Errol"! :-)
Yeah it is! I caught that too!
Old school london villains never see people like these again
Great touch
so they got the bus down, walked in, opened the fire exit, got their bins of tools in. no violence and did this.. hahahahaha yes oldboys!!
I wonder if someone is going to break into Fort Knox soon and pull off THE ACTUAL BIG ONE!
Just watched the 2nd part of the drama series running on ITV about the heist, I think anyone who steals is a deluded fool, there's nothing on this planet worth stealing but I just can't help admiring these old fools for their shear audacity , it was an unbelievable job they pulled off, they didn't kill anyone only their own souls, they didn't injure, threaten , maim or upset anyone except the insurance companies , they were idiots but damm clever idiots.
Watched the same advert 6 times while watching this. Couldn’t skip it either. Nice
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Diamond geezers.
The one who got away was the true mastermind. Guy probably has all that missing loot.
LOL right after I watched GTAV diamond casino heist tutorial, my recommendation got me here.
This is what the British did so well, I remember the sweeney mentioning the "HATTON GARDEN JOB",so the sweeney predicted this back in the 1970s
I thought it started playing Matt Monro, on days like these. I haven’t seen the Italian job in years.
*Update - they found basil*
Great effort
Its never one last job, until they get caught.
That's clearly Alan Ford (Bricktop) narrating the letter at 18:50.
Brickhead !
Brick wall.
I don't understand why vaults like this don't just have 24-hour monitoring. It wouldn't necessarily need to be someone sitting in one spot, it could be someone who just checks in every few hours or someone taking an occasional look at a camera feed.
The reason for no camera security was because many of the items in the safety deposit boxes were stolen items. The people who stored them did not want cameras filming their identity.
It genuinely devastates me they got caught! I've followed Brian Reader for a long time and would have been pleased for him,and them all to pull their one last job off and retire to the good life bless em
As long as it wasn't your money....they took .
@@andrewrees8749 obviously not but it's insured and alot was dodgy valuables hidden from the tax man
Alan Ford - AKA Brick Top - Perfect pick to voice the letter from the gangster
Guy attended the heist with a stolen bus pass, what a guy.
*How did the alarm system send SMS?*
Every single credit to them
For being stupid and getting busted?
The people that cheer these idiots on must be thieves themselves.
I feel like they are explaining on how to get away with a perfect heist
I dozed off a few minutes in then jolted back awake as it was ending,did they get the loot?
Yep
17:25 Ha, they get Alan Ford to do the robbers voice. Classic.
Exactly. Classic voice. I am not Brit but have recognized it instantly. Thank to him I got good knowledge about pig diet. ;)
Even at their ages the buzz is still there! I can kind of understand that in a way
They did all that work getting into the safe just to only rob not even half the boxes
King of thieves is such a good movie ❤based on this crlime x
I love that this was a real oceans eleven. Didn't require violence to do the job, clever as hell, and successful. These older gentlemen pulled off an amazing plan.
Apart from getting caught.
Also 20k reward?! Basil will double that 🤣
Sounds like Bricktop reading the letter
Got caught by using his bus card. thats the most very british way to get knicked indeed 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Has anybody considered the buzz factor alone being involved in the venture? The risk is always there, but the excitement of challenge can be overpowering, and all-consuming to some!
Did it say what year it was?
Is that alan ford doing the voiceover for the letters?
Basil is a herb, not harmful at all.
17:40 - Bricktop!! ha
Must have been a pretty good adrenalin rush.
12:45 this got me TRIGGERED! its Automatic Number Plate Recognition?!?!!?
18:40 this part is hilarious 😂😆
Some people become so institutionalised, after a few stretches, or find reality too much to deal with they prefer prison. It gives them routine, they have almost zero responsibility and they’ll have someone always thinking about them-not always a guarantee outside. Wonder if one or two of these lads wanted to get caught?
I know it's 3 years later but its called Automatic number plate recognition btw.
I heard that when they finally got into the vault that none of them could remember what they went in for.
Nice touch getting Brick top to read that letter
@17:25 sounds just like Brick Top from the movie Snatch
Great story, but sound is so low......
Would be ironic if they hid the loot in safe deposit box's
He even took 3 days of his medication on the heist....😆😆🤣🤣🤣
Like how bricktop is reading the letters
All that stuff and the company couldn't afford to pay for an onsite security guard ?? Doesn't seem right .The company could've raked in the insurance or shared in the loot themselves .
Imagine forgetting something to Finish your robbery and think “oh we will just come back tomorrow, no biggie”
did the extremely hard bit.... fucked up the easy bit of not using your own car and not buying a hydraulic ram in your own name and leaving it in there.
however without the car, i dont think theyd have ever been caught
Terry Perkins died in prison 5th Feb 2018.
Nobody noticed that the reading at 17:20 is Bricktop?!
Was that brick top??
Okay, I condemn the crime BUT HELL, this makes a great story!
Don’t condemn it no violence was used
Where were they taking their equipment in? A building next to the vault?
The fire exit /side door into Hatton garden
why is this video so quiet??
Sorry grandad I’ll turn It up
Old school Islington Boys still at it hahaha
Why won’t they say the name of the criminal organization who was mad at them for doing it around the 5:00 mark?