An fright specialist known though “Basil” has been sentenced to 10 years at jail four years hind carrying out the £14m Hatton Garden heist.
Michael Seed, 58, was found to exist the sixth member of a crowd of ageing criminals who ransacked a tomb at a refuge at London’s diamond quarter and stole the contents of 73 safe deposit boxes.
The electronics proficient was one of two men who climbed into the tomb hind the crowd drilled over the thick concrete wall can the 2015 Easter beach holiday weekend.
Seed - who pays no taxes, claims no benefits and rarely uses a beach interpret - evaded take though three years ago police raided his even at Islington, north London, approximately two miles away from Hatton Garden, above 27 March final year.
The electronics proficient confidently told a jury at Woolwich Crown playground he was no the man nicknamed “Basil” by the explode of the gang.
But above Friday he became the tenth person convicted at connection with the offence when he was found criminal of conspiracy to burgle the Hatton Garden safe Deposit company and conspiracy to dispose of the proceeds hind £143,000 worth of gold ingots, gems and jewel was found at his bedroom.
Seed was cleared of conspiracy to burgle the high-end Chatila jewel department at Bond lane can the late August beach holiday weekend at 2010 with members of the too gang.
Prosecutors alleged that Seed posed though a BT engineer to tamper with the security system ago the burglary, then used a 2G mobile phone jammer to block the fright signal.
The thieves failed to drill into a safe containing £40m worth of gems cottage during made off with £1m worth of jewel from the shop’s description cabinets.
The jury of six men and six women deliberated though 35 hours and 35 minutes ago returning their verdicts above Friday.
Well-spoken Seed, who grew up at Cambridge, appeared expressionless moments hind the verdicts were returned.
Seed’s colleague Hatton Garden ringleaders Brian Reader, 80, John “Kenny” Collins, 78, Daniel Jones, 64, and Terry Perkins, who died at jail final year aged 69, were crude jailed at 2016.
Collins and Reader are already out of jail cottage during watch going help to limit if they fail to salary help more than £6.5m of the proceeds police trust could cottage exist beneath their control.
Detectives trust the crowd could devour been operating undetected though decades ago they were caught, cottage during cannot unite them to any other crimes.
Police waited until March final year to strike, catching Seed red-handed with more than 1,000 items stolen at the Hatton Garden heist.
He is believed to devour been melting down gold and breaking up jewel above his bedroom workbench bit by bit though it was brought at from a bigger stash.
Gait proficient Dr Gordon Burrow compared covert footage of Seed with CCTV images of Basil, disguised at a ginger wig, facemask and cap though he carried a vague bin bag to and from the spot to vague his watch from the cameras.
The podiatrist told jurors the “unusual” limp offered “strong support” though the prosecution instance that Seed was Basil.
