Hatton Garden Raider: I'll Show Where Loot Is

One of the Hatton Garden raiders claims police have ignored his offer to show them where he has hidden his share of the loot.

Danny Jones, 58, has admitted his part in the £20m heist and says he wants to be taken out of his high security jail to hand back what he stole.

He fears if he is not allowed to reveal where he hid the haul, someone else might find it.

Jones wrote to me in a letter from his prison cell: "I've instructed my solicitor...to tell the police Flying Squad that I want to give back my share of (the) Hatton Garden burglary, they said it's in motion.

"I now understand that the police said that the prison Belmarsh won't release me to the police. What a load of bull.

"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."

Jones is one of four men who have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to burgle the Hatton Garden safe deposit centre in London over the Easter bank holiday weekend. They are awaiting sentence.

Five others have denied involvement and are to stand trial next month.

Four others are accused of money laundering and have yet to enter pleas.

Rick Marchant, a loss adjuster at Marchant and Marchant Limited, represents many of the victims. He said: “Perhaps the prisoner (Danny Jones) is trying to work out some sort of deal – I simply don’t know how that will work.

“But those people who have had valuable items stolen in the Hatton Garden heist will be very keen for him to talk.”

This week a pre-trial hearing heard that police now believed that up to £20m worth of jewellery, gems and cash was stolen in the raid and "a significant amount" had still not been recovered.

Previously they said the haul was "in excess of £10m".

Jones wrote: "They are trying to make me look a bad person.

"I'm trying my best to put things right and for some reason they don't want me to give it back.

"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?"

Prisoners are allowed to be taken from their cells to help police investigations, but under strict rules and security.

Jones is held in the high-risk wing of Belmarsh jail and subject to more restrictions than most prisoners, but other high-profile inmates have been taken out briefly for a variety of reasons.

He wrote: "You would have thought the police would have jumped with joy, but for some reason which I don't know, they are not that interested.

"They took that sex killer Levi Belfour (Bellfield) a few years ago, he showed the police where he killed those women.

"So, there you go, Martin, a sex killer and there's me, a 58-year-old burnt-out burglar. Maybe they think I'm going to get (a) hit squad to get me out, my God how stupid."

In a second letter, three weeks later, Jones wrote: "I haven't heard from the police concerning the stuff I want to give back.

"I'm just waiting for the police to take me out giving them back part of the stolen goods.

"They won't let me know if they (are) coming to take me out. Security reasons.

"They better hurry up, we don't want anyone finding it, do we?"

The Ministry of Justice said the issue was one for Scotland Yard to answer.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We are not prepared to discuss an ongoing investigation."