Hatton Garden chaos as safe packed with jewellery launched from window | UK | News
The mystery surrounds a nighttime robbery in Hatton Garden, which sees a safe full of jewelery and cash thrown out of a fourth floor window. London’s famous jewelery district is no stranger to crooks trying to steal precious jewels and gold, but this latest incident could have been fatal if an unlucky passerby had been caught under the fallen safe.
According to the Metropolitan Police, officers attended the incident at an address close to Ely Court in Hatton Garden at around 1.40am on Tuesday, October 21. This morning (Tuesday) a large police tent was still at the scene and the police cordon was in place. One witness likened the crime to the old Looney Tunes cartoon series, where characters such as Wile E. Coyote and Bugs Bunny often used falling crates as weapons against other comedy animated characters.
An eyewitness told Express.co.uk: “People couldn’t believe it, it looked like a safe falling out of a window in an old cartoon. You’d have to be Looney Tunes to try something like that, it’s a miracle no one died.”
“If there had been crooks trying to break it, they must have been desperate; they could have ended up being killed for murder.”
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “Officers attended the scene and discovered a safe had been pushed out of a fourth floor window and subsequently stolen.
“The full extent of what was stolen is not known at this time, but it is believed to include watches, jewelery and cash inside the safe. No arrests have been made at this early stage and investigations are ongoing.”
“Anyone with information is asked to contact police by calling 101 or online using reference number CAD 439/21OCT.”
In 2015, a gang of elderly crooks, dubbed the Diamond Wheezers or Dad’s Army because of their age, carried out the infamous Hatton Garden robbery, stealing more than £14 million of gold bullion, diamonds, jewelery and cash.
The robbery was Britain’s biggest theft, after the gang, aged from their mid-40s to late 70s, managed to gain access to the jewelery vault by seizing a key attached to a nearby building.
