Scrapyard boss was ‘looking after stolen jewellery for a friend’

A millionaire scrapyard owner caught with gems stolen by the Hatton Garden burglars told a court he was looking after the jewellery for an old friend. Terry Perkins, 68, and Danny Jones, 59, tried to drill into a safe containing £40m worth of jewellery stored in Chatila’s flagship store in Mayfair over the August bank holiday weekend of 2010, it is said. The family-owned firm is popular with the world’s rich and famous and international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney,…