Final Hatton Garden raider 'Basil' guilty of conspiracy to burgle
Michael Seed's defence lawyers denied he was the mystery Hatton Garden raider known as"Basil"Michael Seed, 58, from Islington, nick-named"Basil", played a key role in the £14m safe deposit raid in 2015.
He was one of two men who climbed into the vault to loot 73 safe deposit boxes after the gang of ageing criminals drilled through the thick concrete wall over the 2015 Easter bank holiday weekend. Jurors returned a unanimous guilty verdict for the second charge of conspiracy to handle the proceeds after £143,000 worth of gold ingots, gems and jewellery was found in his bedroom.
Prosecutors had alleged he posed as a BT engineer to tamper with the security system before the burglary, then used a 2G mobile phone jammer to block the alarm signal.On that occasion, thieves failed to drill into a safe containing £40 million worth of gems but made off with £1 million worth of jewellery from the shop's display cabinets.
Seed previously told the court he could have been on a family holiday in Cornwall or visiting his elderly mother, in Cambridge, at the time of the Hatton Garden burglary and told jurors he had never been known as Basil.The vault wall at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit was drilled through during Easter weekend in 2015
He went on to study physics and electronics at Nottingham University, where he"enjoyed recreational drugs" and"used to take LSD every weekend" before his one previous run-in with the law.
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