NEW photos show smashed safe deposit boxes in the vault raided in the
£14million Hatton Garden heist.
Seven men, including three OAPs, who bored a hole in a wall to reach the loot,
are awaiting sentence.
The Sun can reveal that ringleader Brian Reader, 76, was linked to the raid at
Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company last Easter by a phone belonging to his
son Paul, 50.
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Brian used it without Paul’s knowledge to call other gang members.
A phone belonging to Paul also led to Kenneth Noye’s downfall over the road
rage murder of Stephen Cameron, 21, at Swanley, Kent, in 1996. Cops tapped
the phone after learning that Brian, who has never owned a mobile, was in
contact with Noye.
There is no suggestion that Paul knew his dad was using his phone.
Noye was tracked to a bolthole in Spain and jailed for life in 2000. He and
Reader were acquitted of murdering an undercover cop in 1985 but convicted
the next year of handling stolen Brink’s-Mat bullion.
A source said: “Reader never sussed it was his boy’s phone being used by him
that put Noye on the radar.
“He thought he could pull the same stunt while putting the Hatton Garden job
together.”