Jewellers’ alarm system ‘was hard to crack’

The burglary suspect known as ‘Basil’ would have found it difficult to crack the high-tech alarm systems used at the Hatton Garden vault and Chatila jewellers, according to a security expert. Michael Seed, 58, is accused of burgling the Hatton Garden safety deposit box centre with a team of ageing criminals over the Easter bank holiday weekend in 2015. Seed is said to have deactivated the alarm at the premises, allowing his accomplices to drill through the vault wall and…