On Easter weekend 2015, a crew of pensioners drilled into Hatton Garden Safe Deposit, the most secure civilian vault in Britain, after the alarm was triggered and waved off as a false alert. This video breaks down Brian Reader’s “back wall” blueprint (skip the vault door, enter via the elevator shaft, drill through reinforced concrete), why the first night almost failed (a steel cabinet blocking the hole), and the decision that fractures the crew when Reader walks away. 73 boxes hit, roughly £14 million taken, and the question that matters most: what actually caught them wasn’t the vault, it was modern surveillance (ANPR cameras and phone data). "Basil", the locksmith who seems to know exactly which boxes to target, and why a large part of the loot is still missing.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/h2hqSQXk
CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
1:16 - The Master’s Blueprint
6:04 - The Descent
10:56 - The Fracture
15:31 - The Vault
20:12 - The Invisible Net
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