One of the ringleaders of the Hatton Garden raid has been handed an additional prison sentence for failing to pay back more than £6.5 million from his criminal gains.
Daniel Jones, 63, was sentenced to a further six years and 287 days at Westminster Magistrates' Court after he failed to comply with a confiscation order totalling £6,599,021.
Jones was a member of the gang that drilled into a vault at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit in London over the Easter weekend in 2015, stealing goods worth approximately £14 million. He was originally jailed for seven years in March 2016 after admitting conspiracy to commit burglary.
In January, Jones and three other men were ordered to pay a combined £6,396,273 after it was found they had benefited from an estimated £13.69 million worth of stolen cash, gold and gems. The gang was also required to pay additional sums based on their personal circumstances.
The heist has been described as the largest burglary in English legal history, with around two-thirds of the stolen valuables still unrecovered.
Heather Chalk, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said Jones had “gained millions of pounds of criminal cash” from the burglary. “In January, the CPS showed the court that Jones had the funds to pay back his ill-gotten gains and today we have successfully argued that his default sentences should be activated,” she added.
