Escaped Hatton Garden Raider 'Is Ex-Cop'

The mystery raider 'Basil' who escaped after the Hatton Garden heist is a former policeman, one of the ringleaders has claimed. A new letter received by Sky News suggests he was the "brains" behind the entire operation. Danny Jones, who is awaiting sentence for the £14m raid, wrote in a letter from Belmarsh Prison: "I can say that someone told me he was an ex-policeman who got into security by the guy who introduced him to me.