Six years for bunglers who drilled through wrong wall

Two bungling burglars who grabbed gems worth £300,000 from a jewellers after drilling through the wrong wall and tunnelling into a bookies were jailed for six years each. Florin-Cristin Neagu, 46, and Sorin Munteanu, 44, dug into the basement of George Attenborough & Son on London’s Fleet Street before fleeing the country. The Romanian pair carried out the ‘sophisticated and daring’ Hatton Garden-style raid over a weekend, using the crowds cheering on the London Landmarks Half Marathon as cover. But…

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