The UK's most lucrative heists have been ranked by value, with the £53m Securitas depot robbery in Tonbridge taking the top spot. The 2006 crime involved kidnappers posing as police officers who seized the manager and his family before forcing staff to hand over cash.
Second on the list is the 2009 Graff jewellery store raid in London's New Bond Street, where two suited gunmen made off with diamonds worth an estimated £40m. The 1987 Knightsbridge Safe Deposit Centre heist, also valued at £40m, saw Italian robber Valerio Viccei flee the country before his eventual arrest.
The Northern Bank robbery in Belfast in 2004 netted £26.4m after a gang posing as police held staff families hostage. The 1983 Brinks Mat gold bullion heist at Heathrow saw three tons of gold worth £26m stolen, with one convicted robber later involved in the Hatton Garden burglary.
The Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary in 2015, valued at £14m, ranks seventh despite the raiders' boasts of it being the world's biggest robbery. The list also includes the 1963 Great Train Robbery (£2.6m), the 1995 Midland Bank heist (£6.6m), and the 1983 Security Express robbery (£6m).
