AN IRISH man is among eight men charged with conspiracy to burgle in connection with last month’s Hatton Garden jewellery raid.
Hugh Doyle, 48, from Enfield is a plumber originally from Dublin, and appeared with all of those charged and remanded in custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court today.
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police’s Flying Squad charged the men, aged between 48 and 76, on Wednesday evening.
Terry Perkins, 67, and Daniel Jones, 58, of Enfield, William Lincoln, 59, of Bethnal Green, east London, John Collins, 74, of Islington, north London, Brian Reader, 76, and Paul Reader, 50, both of Dartford Road, Dartford, and Carl Wood, 58, of Elderbeck Close, Cheshunt, face the same charge.
A ninth man has been bailed pending further inquiries, whilst a tenth man, aged 42, was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to burgle at an address in Essex on Thursday morning.
Thieves raided the vault at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company in London’s jewellery quarter on Easter weekend.
It is believed that jewellery worth up to £200m was taken.
A total of 72 safety deposit boxes were ransacked after thieves forced open shutter doors and drilled a hole using heavy cutting equipment into the vault wall.
The Metropolitan Police apologised after a call from a security firm about an intruder alert shortly after midnight on Good Friday was deemed not to require a response.
Scotland Yard are continuing to investigate the handling over the response to the alarm system.
