"It's one of the most audacious diamond heists." "It's estimated the thieves got away with up to?" "200 million in jewels." "Now, we've managed to speak to one of the vault's owners who lives in Sudan, where he speaks on camera for the first time." "People are saying this was an inside job." "I don't know how they got the information, but I don't think." "It required a team with diverse skills." "Most of all, the raid on the Hatton Garden Safe." "And I'm about to show you how they pulled it off." "The alarm was raised just." "This weekend raiders may have escaped with millions more." "The detectives say their priority now has to be gathering the evidence." "The Hatton Garden diamond heist is the crime everyone is talking about." "Journalists are hanging around outside, but the police have." "So everybody is just kind of standing around here waiting" "I think I'm just going to knock the door, ask them if I can come in," "I just wondered, I'm from the BBC doing a documentary, do you know if there is any chance we can get in and have a look around?" "No, definitely not, unless you work in the building upstairs." "Let's go and have a look round the back." "The place where the gang were captured on CCTV is just here, because you can see that CCTV camera up there," "Hatton Garden has its own giant strongroom." "For over 60 years, this underground vault at the Hatton Garden Safe." "Deposit Company has been offering local diamond dealers and jewellers," "Constructed at a cost of more than?" "20,000 a two-foot wide bomb and burglar proof door operated by a combination that has to be operated by at least two men opens up a labyrinth of safes." "Many of the diamond dealers in this area are small businesses and relied on this safe deposit company to store their precious stones." "But one dealer has agreed to talk to me anonymously." "What is the effect of small businesses who have lost." "Do you know people who have been devastated by this?" "And what kind of state are they in now?" "So, how did the thieves break into a vault claimed to be impenetrable?" "I want to find out how a professional criminal would start" "I've made contact with a man who'll tell me." "His CV makes him more than qualified to know." "Noel 'Razor' Smith has committed dozens of armed robberies, which in his own words was like "an all-out war"." "With 58 criminal convictions, he's spent over 30 years in jail." "I think if you're going to put a job like this together properly, what you will do is the typical Reservoir Dogs turnout, where you will get people who don't know each other and therefore." "How do you know that the person you're bringing in isn't." "You know, the criminal sort of underworld, if you like, for want of a better word, works on reputation, and if your reputation has even got a stain on it nobody will talk to you." "The last person leaves the building for the Easter weekend," "The clock has started ticking on one of the most audacious diamond." "One robber appears carrying a large black sack, keeping his head down," "About ten minutes later, they bring in the tools that will be used to tackle each obstacle between them and the diamonds." "The first challenge is how to get to the vault which is located." "There is a security door on the ground floor, which prevents access to the stairs leading down to the vault." "But the robbers have crucial information about the inner." "They know there's a lift shaft that goes all the way to the basement." "But as part of the security for the vault, the lift itself." "The gang has worked out that if they can climb down the lift shaft, they can bypass the security preventing access to the basement." "To do that, they first need to disable the lift." "I want to find out just how that's done." "I only have two phobias, heights and enclosed spaces so I'm." "Disabling a lift, making sure that it doesn't move." "Ultimately this key can gain you access into the lift shaft." "So this is a key that you can manipulate where." "That's broken the mechanical and electrical contact." "So that's stopped, it's not going anywhere." "They're going to teach me how to abseil down a lift shaft." "Mate, I wouldn't even get on a stepladder to change a light bulb," "So you're going to send the lift up here, yeah?" "Just like the robbers did, Gary moves the lift above us, so that we" "I've got them rigged so they're releasable" "because I am not sure that you're not going to grip up with fear." "If you do, I can literally lift you down to the but is more relaxed than this," "Now the gang would have had to do exactly what I'm about to do now." "Climb up, up maybe a metre and a half and get this thing open." "Now, see this roller here, that's what locks a lift door." "So you just have to push this up and that is how you open a locked." "But don't forget, the basement door of the vault was probably bolted or screwed shut so they probably had to have cutting." "Police photos show how the robbers then forced open this security door from inside the lift shaft, and then cut the bars on." "They were in the basement corridor outside the vault," "On the streets above, no-one was aware that one of the world's." "It's 20 past midnight, just three hours into the robbery, and something happens that could derail the whole operation." "That alarm is being monitored and the police are informed." "But the police deem that they don't need to respond." "Alarms are not that much of a deterrent." "I mean, we used to do places where the alarms were going." "You'd know you've got certain amount of time to get out so, you know." "They may even have set off the alarm on purpose just to see." "But modern state of the art alarms are incredibly sophisticated." "It's only there for display that's the system in there." "You are under surveillance, can you identify yourself?" "We are just doing a quick demo on the system." "So, they are looking at us on that camera?" "It's not clear whether the vault at Hatton Garden has this type of system but if they do, it's difficult to see how." "It's nearly one o'clock in the morning." "The gang are so confident that they haven't been rumbled by the alarm going off that one of them is seen on CCTV around half an hour later, then disappears for the next seven hours to the basement where they are" "dealing with the next big obstacle." "Drilling through the outer wall." "These crime scene photos released just this week show us exactly how." "So how difficult is it to drill through reinforced concrete?" "So, what I need you to do is drill me one of these, exactly like that." "We've got the same drill, making an identical hole, and even a." "So I'm going to start the clock and you start the drilling." "The noise is nowhere near as loud as you might expect." "So I reckon, if they're in the basement, people on the street are not going to hear this." "It's not surprising that nobody noticed." "At first the drill is whizzing through the concrete." "But every time it meets the steel reinforcements inside," "The same sized hole drilled by the robbers." "Newspaper reports have said that it took them maybe six or eight hours" "drill through to the vault but no no." "So what does that mean for our timeline?" "I estimate the gang would have been in the vault within just a few hours." "John Jones is a former Flying Squad detective who has investigated some." "It was the sort of classic heist, highly well planned, loads of cheek." "Presumably great profits, and it really took me back to the old days when professional criminals used to do these kind of things rather than." "Which is sell large quantities of dangerous drugs." "Dave Courtney is a former south London gangster." "Welcome to the castle and all of that." "He lives in a semi detached castle in Plumstead." "He's agreed to give me his take on the gang who pulled this off." "I can understand people going, oh, it's very KGB." "Its very Eastern Bloc, military trained, you know," "There's not many criminals think it's a Russian firm." "Do criminals think it's an English firm?" "It's incredibly ballsy and audiocious to be there." "That's what criminals are about." "It's incredibly ballsy and gutsy and risky and me and you aren't prepared to do that." "And that's the difference between them and you, my friend." "And it seems there's another crucial difference between me and the" "I dunno it's gonna be tight isn't it?" "There's absolutely no way I'm going through this," "Time for somebody a bit slimmer to have a crack." "Well that is fascinating because a man can get through here," "but you look on the CCTV and at least two or three of those guys are bigger, you know sturdier like my size or even bigger." "So they didn't all go into the vault." "So the police should be looking on the CCTV for the ones who are leaner, thinner - they're the ones who are in the vault." "Different members of the team would have been recruited to do different jobs." "Knowing the criminal underworld that you do..." "It is, if you have enough money you can buy the skills, you can Google it." "Do you just find someone and then he comes in." "There's a Black Web zone - you can go and get mercenaries to go and fight a war for you in other countries." "Now the last thing at this point standing between you and your loot are these standard safety deposit boxes." "So I haven't a clue how to get into one of these but I've got a few tools and I'll give it a crack and see how solid they are." "Ah, I thought I'd done it but all I've done is just taken off." "Nearly there, I'm going to try and knock the lock a bit more." "So roughly five minutes, we'll continue on and see." "The team that went in there I think were just heavy lifters." "They were labourers, they were told what to do." "Yeah - they got them do the donkey work." "There's someone above them that puts the team together." "The problem with that is if you are on a flat fee - is that once you see how much you have stolen some people start getting a bit bitter and twisted and that could lead to their downfall." "I would say that they're probably on a percentage." "I always used to work it that way when I was working - even the driver got a percentage and that way nothing's bitter cos." "These boxes aren't really secure, I could get in there." "So why didn't they open every box in the place if you can do this?" "The crime scene pictures seem to show the doors of the boxes still on their hinges so the robbers probably used drills." "After working for nearly eleven hours through the night the gang." "For the next two days the robbery scene lies undiscovered." "Incredibly, the gang then returns on Saturday night to plunder more." "Did it surprise you that they went back for a second time?" "If you do a job and you go past the job the next day and there's nothing about it on the news and when you pass by it still looks the same as the way you left it, you're going to take the chance" "I have done it myself on several occasions, yeah." "If it is cool, you go back in." "At 6.30am on Easter Sunday the gang leaves After all their hard work they only opened 72 After all, other boxes could have contained jewels worth millions." "And I'm not alone" "in thinking it's odd." "Former gangster Dave Courtney has his own theory." "They spend all this time getting into the vault and then they open like 72 boxes and there's nearly a thousand there." "They'll have known what 72 boxes to get, and you've got to do all At some level you feel that this was an inside job?" "At some level, however trivial, there was." "And when you consider the value of some of the diamonds stolen, that I've just met a Hatton Garden diamond dealer who says he lost over 200 jewels in the heist totaling nearly half a million pounds." "He doesn't want to be identified but he has given me some very These are certificates of authenticity for some of the stones which are now out there on the black market and He lost a pair of diamonds that" "were together worth 40,000." "He lost one 4 carat diamond, that one stone was worth?" "60,000." "But he also told me something else - until just a few days before this robbery he was holding a diamond in that very deposit box He believes the reason so few boxes were opened is because the diamond thieves had intelligence from the" "international diamond market about which dealers in Hatton Gardens had the most expensive stones That's just one of many theories floating But when it comes to talking openly about this crime, this Over the past few weeks," "I've been trying time and again to make contact with one of the owners and directors of the I just want to ask him about why he hasn't been in touch with He has been running the company" "for the last 8 years." "Whoever answers claims not to be him and says they don't know where he I tried contacting him on social media, and called to an address And I'm certainly not the only person looking to speak to The safe deposit box holders that" "I've spoken to have all told me they haven't heard from him since the robbery." "Only one of them was willing to talk to me, How much contact have you had with the company itself, the Hatton We haven't heard anything" "and actually that is actually making Because I've spoken to people here who say he's abroad, and I've spoken to people abroad who say he's here " "have you any idea where he is?" "But do people find it odd that he hasn't been more visible, "Disappointed" is quite an understatement." "I mean a lot of people want" "to talk to Manish Bavishi." "Now we've spoken to the police - they say they've spoken to him." "That's all they'll say - but the question is where is he, Manish's father is also a director of the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company," "and the majority shareholder." "His name is Mahendra Bavishi, and he lives in Khartoum, Sudan." "We contacted him there, and he agreed to an interview with It's Declan Lawn from BBC television." "When was the last time that you saw your son or spoke to him?" "So that was just a few days" "after the robbery?" "Do you find it odd that you haven't been able to contact him since?" "People are saying that this was an" "inside job, that maybe somebody..." "But, of course, you know," "I don't know how they got the information, but I don't think that that could be the case." "Remarkably, when I spoke to him he said the police hadn't been You would imagine that the police would speak to everybody Yes, you're willing to speak with them?" "It's now almost three weeks" "since the police started An investigation which began two days after the gang And because they robbed the most secretive part of a secretive trade, no one will ever know for sure how much the gang got away with." "But it's certainly an amount that will be staggering, even to them." "I'm in Southampton, catching up one last time with Razor." "I want to know what happens to the loot after the getaway." "Well, it would be taken to a slaughter where it would be Yeah, that's where they chop up the loot, it's a criminal expression, and then the loot will be broken down in to small parcels, and given to people who probably" "don't know what's in it, just be They don't even count people going out of the country But there are other ways" "of doing it." "The criminal mindset that sums up these ingenious crimes and ways of You go like that, you can put that many diamonds." "Jewels up a horses Millions" "of people have done that." "People have stuck jewels up a horse's bum to get it out Of course very much so, hundreds and hundreds." "After everything I've learnt over the last few weeks I now have a very good understanding of how the gang pulled this heist off." "From abseiling, to drilling to opening safe deposit boxes." "But the one question we all still have is will they get away with it?" "And you don't think they will get away with it." "The amount of money that is going to be offered to be an informant..." "So if the reward's big enough there'll be someone Other criminals get jealous, they know what somebody's done and they haven't got any," "so they'll tell their friend who Walking off into the sunset with other people's money is not an easy thing to do and I think I've come to understand how they did it." "Why they did it is easy - will they get away with it?" "But if they do they have got close to the perfect crime." "What they are planning" "is far more dangerous We have a mole, not just in MI5, but in this room." "Clearly, we can't trust him." "But we can use him." "All right!" "All right!" "All right, I'll talk!" "It's just a game." "We're just playing a game." "But all the world will see the finished picture."