The Hatton Garden theft

The Hatton Garden is the largest theft in England, but it is not knowing, for this reason, The Hatton Garden is known because of the robbers.They are pensioners. The authors are seven and all of them have already been sentenced to prison. They have an age between 59 and 79 years old and all of them have an old and extensive career in the world of crime. The defendants burst into a security room from the diamonds district in London and they took a loot wich is value in 14 million pounds. 

Who is considered to be the leader, Brian Reader (also knowing as The Master), could not be tried because of his health. The Master is 77 years old is now in the intensive care unit watch over nine armed officers. His lawyer has asked to revoke the sentence because of his poor state of health. 

The high punishment in Egland for theft that is not in houses are 10 years. The other three leaders of the robbery, John Collins (75 years old), Daniel Jones (61 years old) and Terry Perkins (67 years old), had been convicted to seven years in prison, and the other two more accomplices, Carl Wood (59 years old) and William Lincoln (60 years old), has also been convicted to six and seven years of prison. 

The band members were suffering from typical diseases of people their age like diabetes, arthritis, and urinary incontinence. They planned the robbery during three years and they could take the jewelry from 73 security boxes after bursting into the room through a hole drilled in a concrete wall half a meter thick. The loot has not been repaired completely, some objects are still missing and it is suspected that some of them to have already been out of the country. 

I have found this news very funny although it may not be. I'm imagining the situation: seven retired that between the game of dominoes and card game at the bar engaged in planning the large-scale theft. And what is the best: they carry it out and it works! 

We are in an age where there are no thieves but hackers. All companies, banks and also ordinary people care more about the security of their computers and information systems than about their material things. And these seven thieves have star in a robbery at the old-fashioned. They had an schematic plan to follow organized and planned in a perfect way. They have have the leading role in a type of theft increasingly rare. They also know what they were doing because they didn't let any physical trace during the two nights that lasted the theft. But they make a unique mistake that we can say is only one they can make because they are not used to new technologies: license plate readers and modern microphones. 

It's not to praise the robbers but we must recognize that the facts have their grace and they can be the perfect plot for a Hollywood film.