Tiny sum Hatton Garden heist crooks have paid back from their £14MILLION ill-gotten gains in past 3 years revealed
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Crooks from left: Daniel Jones, Terry Perkins and Brian Reader
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Now new Freedom of Information figures released to The Sun on Sunday show five of the robbers - two of whom have since died - have made repayments of just £8,000 each.
That's the equivalent of a paltry £40,000 in total over the last three years with the CPS confirming 'hidden assets' remain outstanding in the case with the court deeming the defendants know where they are.
Previously, lookout John 'Kenny Collins, 84, returned £1,347,436.43 (or £1.35million) of the £7.6 million he trousered from the raid.
But since 2022 progress has been slow with only £8,000 extra being handed over.
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After being freed in late 2018 having served less than half of a seven-year sentence he was sent back to jail in 2019 for a further seven years for refusing to hand back his share of the heist.
While alarm expert Michael Seed, 65, has coughed up just £55,222 from a whopping £5.6 million he pocketed from the robbery.
Again, an increase of just £8k since 2022.
He was originally jailed for ten years in March 2019 but was handed a further six-and-a-half year jail term in 2023 for failing to pay back his loot.
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He has also returned an additional £8,000 over the last three years – but nothing more.
Hatton Garden raider blames 'mastermind' for the gang getting caught and claims he 'abandoned them' when heist didn't go to plan
Originally sentenced to seven years he was given an extra six years and 287 days for failing to pay back the millions he made from the raid but was released in February 2022.
Fellow raiders,
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He had paid back £513,766.99 of a £6.1 million proceeds of crime demand.
Perkins died of heart failure in his jail cell at Belmarsh in February 2018.
He paid back just £387, 772.31 of his almost £6.5 million criminal benefit from the raid.
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A Crown Prosecution Service spokeswoman, said: 'No convicted criminal should profit from their crimes and the Hatton Garden burglars have paid back more than £3 million of what they stole.
'We have taken four of the burglars back to court after they failed to pay their full orders, resulting in three of them receiving significant additional jail time.
'While all UK assets have now been realised, we continue our work with partner agencies to trace the proceeds of this crime and go after any remaining hidden assets.'
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Hatton Garden heist gang lookout John 'Kenny' Collins
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The robbery at Hatton Garden Safety Deposit vault
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Inside the vault in Hatton Garden
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The huge hole drilled by the gang to ransack the safe deposit
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The vault door at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit
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Police video surveillance of John Collins, Terry Perkins and Brian Reader in the Castle Public House, Pentonville Road
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