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    The Hatton Garden raid was meticulous in its planning, dazzling 
    in its complexity – yet still the burglars were caught.
I disagree with this premise. The Hatton Garden heist only made it as far as it did because of a number of failings outside of the gangs control, that they didn't expect. The heist was doomed to fail from the start and only made it as far as it did because of a lot of good fortune on the gangs behalf.


IIRC They got caught by bragging about it. Not having a post-heist plan seems like a big failing.


+1 post-heist plan. Every good heist movie addresses this.


Basil's plan appears to be working so far.


tl;dr:

> The Hatton Garden burglars were caught because they used one of their own cars within view of a security camera. And according to David Kelly, a former NYPD detective who now works for the private intelligence company K2, it’s CCTV which has changed things most.




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