LONDON -- One of the men who admitted taking part in a £20 million ($30.9 million) heist of cash and gems from an underground vault in Hatton Garden has reportedly led police to a north London cemetery where he stashed his share of the goods.
Danny Jones, 58, told Sky News last week that police had ignored his offer to show them where the loot was and that he feared someone else would find it.
But reports say the police took him up on the offer Thursday. An armed convoy and a police helicopter brought him from Belmarsh prison, in southeast London, to an unnamed cemetery in north London.
The Metropolitan Police told Mashable in a statement: "On 15 October officers from the Met Police Flying Squad searched a venue in north London as part of an ongoing investigation where property was recovered." They would not give any more details or confirm an individual was taken out of prison because it's an ongoing investigation.
Jones was taken straight back to prison after he showed them the location, while a heavily guarded team went to work recovering the items, according to Sky News. The dig lasted around four hours and the items were taken away in several boxes.
Jones had said in a letter to sky news journalist Martin Brunt that he wanted to show the police where the loot was. "The police can't want it back, as I'm the only person in the world to no [know] where it is, deep down. I want to do the right thing and give it back," he wrote.
#HattonGarden raider Danny Jones, 58, offers to reveal where he hid his share of haul in a letter to @SkyNews. http://t.co/L7hh4bkWVI— Ian Hitchings (@IamIanHitchings) October 9, 2015
"If I don't get the chance to go out under armed escort, I hope some poor sod who's having it hard out there with his or her family find the lot and have a nice life, as you never know, Martin, people do find things, don't they?"
Four men have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rob the Hatton Garden vault over the Easter bank holiday weekend. Five others pleaded not guilty and will stand trial next month.
In the heist, the gang dressed as builders and drilled a 50-cm (20-inch) hole through the wall to get into safe deposit boxes underneath London's jewelery district, Hatton Garden.
An alarm went off but police didn't respond to it. Police initially estimated that £10 million worth of property had been stolen but then later doubled the estimate.
The nine men were detained after raids on homes in London and Kent in May.
