Hatton Garden heist: police probe CCTV

The Daily Mirror published footaged that appears to show at least six men arriving at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposity Company in central London on Thursday night.

The men apparently made two separate visits before leaving on Easter Sunday with the contents of 72 safety deposit boxes and driving away in a white van.

In the video published on the Mirror’s website, the camera centres on a doorway at the bottom of a stairway to the street.

Several men appear wearing high-visibility jackets, builder’s hats, gloves and dust masks and carrying tool boxes and holdalls. Others are wearing overalls and gloves.

Three men, who have their faces covered, are shown pushing wheelie bins in and out of the building.

The white van was seen pulling up shortly before 7am on Easter Sunday, according to the Mirror. Bins and bags were stashed inside and the men drove away.

It was not until Tuesday morning that the raid was discovered.

Detectives found that 72 safety deposit boxes had been opened, five were vacant and 11 were due to be “drilled out” due to non-payment of fees, meaning officers were attempting to contact a total of 56 box holders.

No official value has been put on the stolen goods but former police officers have said they could be worth tens or even hundreds of millions.

John O’Connor, a former head of the Metropolitan Police’s Flying Squad, said he was “horrified” that police appeared not to have obtained the footage before the Daily Mirror.

But a Scotland Yard spokesman said officers were already aware of the footage, along with images captured by other security cameras, before it was published by the tabloid.

Earlier Scotland Yard admitted officers were told a burglar alarm had gone off at the scene but decided that the situation not require a police response.

A security firm contacted the Met about an intruder alert shortly after midnight on Good Friday, but “no police response was deemed to be required”.

The force has also “not made any links” between the robbery and an underground fire in London’s Holborn area days earlier which caused widespread power outages and road closures, the spokesman added.