You ARE Basil! Hatton Garden mastermind gets 10 years

The Hatton Garden raider known as ‘Basil’ is facing years behind bars after he was convicted of masterminding the biggest burglary in British history. Michael Seed, 58, squeezed through the 25cm by 45cm hole cut by a diamond-tipped drill into the vaults and grabbed gems, ingots and cash worth £14m over the Easter weekend of 2015. The bespectacled loner cut the alarms at the jewellers after entering through the front door with a key. Seed then opened the fire escape…

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