Hatton Garden heist ringleader Brian Reader dies aged 84 | UK News [Video]

Brian Reader, the man behind the Hatton Garden heist, has died at the age of 84.

He is infamous for his role in high profile raids across the country where he made more than £200million throughout his life.

A death certificate reveals that Reader died in September 2023 at his home in Dartford, Kent, despite his family trying to keep it a secret.

He died from colon and prostate cancer.

Born in 1939 in London’s Docklands, Reader’s criminal career started at the age of just 11, where he used to steal tinned fruit from shops.

His first big job came in the 1960s, where he stole £500,000 from a Post Office – the equivalent to £7.5million today.

As one of London’s most notorious modern gangsters, Reader targeted banks in London from the age of 32.

One of the most famous of these was Reader heading up a gang known as the ‘Millionaire Moles’ who dug 40 feet under a restaurant into a Baker Street branch of Lloyds bank in 1971.

They stole …