This is the moment police uncovered a Sainsbury's Bag-for-Life stuffed with jewellery and gems stolen in the Hatton Garden raid - after it was buried beneath a gravestone by one of the gang.
Footage of the unearthing of the gems was released today as six of the veteran criminals involved in the £14million heist were jailed for a total of 34 years.
The jewellery shown being unearthed was found after ringleader Daniel Jones offered to take detectives to Edmonton Cemetery, where he hid the bag under the gravestone of a dead relative.
Sentencing six of the gang today, Judge Christopher Kinch QC, said: 'The burglary of the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit vault in April 2015 has been labelled by many as the biggest burglary in English legal history.
'Whether that assertion is capable of proof, I do not know. However, it is clear that the burglary at the heart of this case stands in a class of its own in the scale of the ambition, the detail of the planning, the level of preparation and the organisation of the team carrying it out, and in terms of the value of the property stolen.'
Prosecutors had asked the judge to go above the ten-year maximum sentence for non-dwelling burglary due to the extraordinary value of the stolen goods, but the sentences of six and seven years handed to the gang mean they will be freed after less than four years behind bars.
Police have released a video showing the moment they unearthed some of the loot stolen from Hatton Garden. One of the gang, Daniel Jones, took police to a graveyard after his arrest and showed them he had buried it under the gravestone of a relative of an ex-partner
The video shows forensics experts from the police team who tracked down the veteran gang leafing through a Sainsbury's bag for life which was stuffed with some of the huge haul of jewellery and gems which was taken from the underground vault in London last Easter
Terry Perkins, 67, who took part on both nights of the heist, look-out John 'Kenny' Collins, 75, and Daniel Jones, 61, who got inside the vault, all got seven-year sentences today after admitting their involvement.
William Lincoln, dubbed 'Billy the Fish', who helped move on the stolen goods, also got seven years. His involvement was less serious but he was found guilty after a trial so was not entitled to a reduced sentence.
Carl Wood, 58, who quit the gang on the second night fearing they would be caught, got six years. He was found guilty of involvement after a trial.
All of the men will be freed after serving half of their sentences and will spent the rest on licence.
Hugh Doyle, 49, who allowed the group to use his office, was given a 21-month sentence, suspended for two years. He had already served six months in prison before he was bailed.
The footage released today shows forensics officers involved in the investigation carefully removing the bag of loot from the ground and inspecting the jewellery inside.
Jones, who was one of the men who got inside the vault in Hatton Garden, offered to take detectives to the cemetery after he pleaded guilty to his role in the crime.
What he didn't know however was that police already knew about the stash and another, much larger one containing two other bags of valuables under the memorial stone to Jones's children's grandfather.
While Jones led them to the smaller haul, he walked right past the larger stash when taken the north London cemetery by detectives.
Hatton Garden ringleaders John 'Kenny' Collins, 74, Daniel Jones, 58, and Terry Perkins, 67, face jail and are being sentenced today
Carl Wood, 58, William Lincoln, 60, and Hugh Doyle, 49, who were convicted of lesser roles in the heist at trial, are also being sentenced
Police had already found the larger haul under a memorial site for a man called Sidney James Hart - the grandfather of Jones's children.
Days later, on October 15, Jones was escorted from prison to a memorial in the name of a man called Sidney John Hart, who may have been another relation to the mother of Jones's children - Valerie Hart.
After revealing the smaller stash to officers, Jones told police he was the only person who knew of the stash, and declared: 'There's no other outstanding property. That is all I had.'
During the court case, prosecutor Philip Evans said Jones was clearly hoping he could give up the smaller stash and keep the bigger one for himself.
Detectives today also released recordings of four of the gang's interviews after arrest, in which all of them refused to answer questions.
Collins was asked: 'Your role, wasn't it, was to be the driver and the lookout?' In a croaky voice, he replies: 'No comment'.
Hatton Garden burglar Brian Reader, 77, is too ill to attend the sentencing hearing after suffering a stroke in prison
Perkins was asked: 'What was your role in this burglary?' He replies angrily: 'No comment'.
Jones was asked: 'Your role was to get through the hole was to get through the hole wasn't it?' He also replies: 'No comment'.
Reader meanwhile refused to answer when he is shown a picture of himself wearing a high-viz vest on the first night of the raid.
News of the raid went around the world at Easter last year as the huge amount of goods stolen began to emerge. Valuables worth up to £14million, including gold, diamonds and sapphires, were taken. Two-thirds of them remain unrecovered.
The gang - who have been described as 'analogue criminals in a digital age' - were tracked down due to a series of mistakes, including one of them using his own car during the heist.
Following a painstaking investigation in which a surveillance operation caught three of the ringleaders bragging about the raid in a north London pub, the group were arrested.
Ringleaders Collins, 75, of Islington; Jones, 61, of Enfield; Perkins, 67, of Enfield pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary last September.
Wood of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, and Lincoln of Winkley Street, Bethnal Green, east London, were convicted of conspiracy to commit burglary and conspiracy to conceal, convert or transfer criminal property, after a trial at Woolwich Crown Court.
Plumber Hugh Doyle, of Enfield, north London, was found guilty of concealing, converting or transferring criminal property between January 1 and May 19 last year.
The group's oldest member Brian Reader, 77, of Dartford, was also due to be sentenced but, after falling ill in Belmarsh and having a second stroke, he was deemed unfit to appear in the dock alongside his accomplices.
Another thief, known only as Basil, remains at large. He was instrumental in helping the gang get into the vault in the heart of London's diamond district but his identity is completely unknown to police.
The crooks drew on experiences from two crimes – the £26 million Brink's Mat gold heist and the £6 million Security Express cash robbery, which both took place in 1983.
Perkins was involved in the Security Express robbery, when fifteen masked men armed with pistols and shotguns stole £6 million, worth almost £20 million in today's money
Reader meanwhile was involved in the Brink's Mat gold heist took place near Heathrow, in which three tonnes of gold was stolen.
The gang planned the raid for the long Easter bank holiday weekend when they believed they would be free to work uninterrupted after security guards locked up on Thursday night.
Reader travelled to the site by bus using someone else's Freedom Pass, while Collins transported the rest of the gang, dressed as workmen in high-visibility vests, in a battered white Transit van.
The uncaught gang member referred to as 'Basil', who had sourced a key to the building's heavy double wooden doors, let himself in, then waited for the last jeweller, Lionel Wiffen, to leave for the night.
The gang stole £14million worth of gems and diamonds from an underground vault in central London
He then let his accomplices in through the fire escape where they brought in tools and equipment in wheelie bins along with large metal joists, while Collins acted as lookout from over he road.
Basil made a mistake and, as the burglars breached the first heavy iron door to the corridor outside the vault, an SMS was sent to the property's owner, indicating the alarm had been triggered and that police were on the way. But the officers never arrived.
Security guard Kelvin Stockwell got to the scene at 1.05am, but after a cursory check, he was told by his boss to go home
It took the bungling gang two nights to breach the vault after they had to a buy a new pump to knock down a row of safety deposit boxes.
Collins, the designated look out, drove his own white Mercedes to Hatton Garden - seemingly unaware that the car would be picked up on the automatic number plate recognition system - on the second night of the raid.
It was then tracked and bugged as part of the investigation which led to the gang's arrest.
Covert recording devices planted in their cars captured the men boasting of their endeavours.
Terry Perkins was seen on a police surveillance video showing off the pumping action which allowed the raiders to finally break through a wall
He was caught after police got CCTV of him and accomplices John Collins (centre) and Terry Perkins (left) bragging about the heist in a pub
Perkins was also caught saying the gold from the raid was going to be his pension.
'I'm going to melt my good gold down. The Indian, the 18, that could be my pension if I could get half an idea of what's there, you know what I mean,' he said.
Jones bragged about the raid in another recording, saying: 'The biggest cash robbery in history at the time and now the biggest Tom in the f****** world, that's what they are saying ... and what a book you could write, f****** hell'.'
'Tom' is cockney rhyming slang for jewellery and it is thought the gang used the word as shorthand to talk about the jewellery raid.
'Forget A-rated prison - have you got a G-rated boiler?' Hatton Garden defendant uses trial to drum up trade for his plumbing firm
One of the men involved in the Hatton Garden heist has been using his notoriety to drum up trade for his plumbing firm.
Hugh Doyle - who was given a suspended sentence today - was one of smaller players in the plot and offered up his workshop as an exchange point for the handover of stolen goods.
He has been on bail since his lesser role in the break-in emerged and a burglary charge against him was dropped.
On his way to court this morning, the plumber tweeted a message to his followers saying he hoped he would go free - and asking if they needed a new boiler.
Hugh Doyle, convicted of helping the Hatton Garden gang, has been using the trial to get plumbing work
Doyle allowed the Hatton Garden thieves to use his office as they planned how they would move the jewellery
He posted a picture of his company's car next to the caption: 'On Woolwich ferry on way to court, last day of 37 days in court, hope let's hope I don't have to walk plank!!'
He then added: 'Forget A rated prison - have you got a G rated boiler? £400 cash back for new boiler.'
Doyle was originally charged with conspiracy to burgle and remanded in Belmarsh prison.
But when the burglary charge was dropped just a week before the trial was due to start, Doyle was granted bail and fitted with an electronic tag.
He has since continued to work for his firm, which has a specially-branded van and motorbike.
The 49-year-old even wore his uniform in the dock and offered his professional services to journalists reporting on the case.
The father-of-two was brought into the plot because he was a trusted friend of John 'Kenny' Collins, the gang's look-out man.
Doyle was not party to the planning of the burglary and never went to Hatton Garden, but was contacted by Collins when the gang needed somewhere to exchange the stolen loot.
Doyle has even been advertising his firm to journalists covering the burglary trial in court
Collins was given a key to the padlock that secured the wooden doors to the small brick-built shed, but instead carried out the handover in the pub car park, in full view of CCTV cameras.
Doyle was arrested along with the gang's ringleaders on 19 May last year, charged with conspiracy to burgle and remanded in one of Britain's most secure prisons.
The amateur pilot was not allowed visits from his family for three-and-a-half months, spending most of his time behind bars exercising.
He lost two stone in weight and got hold of a copy of Christopher Hitchens' 'God is not Great' so he could discuss religion with extremists on his wing.
'Analogue crooks in a digital age': 'Diamond Wheezers' gang included two old time crooks involved in the most notorious raids of the 80s
CAREER CRIMINAL KNOWN AS 'THE GUVNOR' WHO WAS JAILED FOR HIS ROLE IN THE £26MILLION BRINK'S MAT HEIST WENT TO THE HATTON GARDEN JOB USING A BUS PASS
'Career criminal' Brian Reader was known as 'the Guv'nor' and was a partner in crime of notorious gangland figure Kenneth Noye - despite the fact the pair were like 'chalk and cheese'.
Aged 76, Reader is the oldest of the gang and he even travelled to the robbery on a bus using a pensioner's 'Freedom Pass'.
One police officer described him as 'the last of the gentlemen thieves.'
The second-hand car dealer, from Dartford, was jailed for his part in the infamous Brink's Mat robbery in 1983.
The notorious heist involved armed robbers stealing £26million in gold bullion from Brink's Mat, near London's Heathrow Airport.
Reader was jailed at the Old Bailey in 1986 for conspiracy to handle stolen goods after plotting to with fellow crook Kenneth Noye to convert the gold.
Noye was an expert in converting criminal property and even mixed some of the gold with copper coins to lessen its purity and disguise it. He then recruited Reader to help him sell the gold.
Reader was also present at Noye's house on the night an undercover policeman, Detective Constable John Fordham, who had been monitoring Noye, was stabbed 11 times.
After Fordham's death, his colleagues discovered 11 gold bars wrapped in red-and-white cloth hidden in a shallow gully beside the garage wall.
Noye and Reader were found not guilty of the murder of DC Fordham but five months later both were jailed in 1986 for handling the stolen bullion.
Reader was jailed for eight years and Noye 14 for their roles in handling the Brink's Mat gold - much of which has never been found.
A police source told The Mirror they believe Reader had nothing to do with the killing.
The source said: 'Him and Noye were like chalk and cheese. Reader is the last of the gentleman thieves.
'He was a likeable bloke, not arrogant or aggressive like many villains. He didn't have the swagger or the bravado of people like Noye.'
Police linked reader to the Hatton Garden robbery after he was found to be communicating with other suspects after the raid.
When detectives moved in on his detached property in Dartford in May last year, they seized a book on the diamond underworld, diamond testers, a diamond gauge and diamond magazines.
They also found a distinctive scarf which could be seen on CCTV. Police recognised his stripy socks and brown shoes.
After travelling to the first night of the raid on the bus, Reader was involved as the gang drilled through the wall of the basement vault.
However, when the gang failed to dislodge a cabinet of safety deposit boxes and decided to come back later to complete the job, Reader dropped out and did not return.
Noye is currently serving life in prison for the road rage killing of Stephen Cameron in 1996.
CAREER CRIMINAL WHO TOOK PART IN THE 1985 SECURITY EXPRESS HEIST AND WHO STAYED AT HATTON GARDEN TO THE END
Terry Perkins celebrated his 67th birthday over the weekend of the raid.
He was one of those involved from start to finish and entered the safety deposit premises on both nights of the heist.
He did not go through the drilled holes into the vault and is thought to have stayed outside being handed the stolen goods.
He was later recorded by police saying he wished he'd taken a photo during the raid.
Police have described him as a career criminal and he was also involved in the well-known Security Express heist in east London in 1985.
He was jailed for 22 years at the Old Bailey in 1985 along with John Knight where they were described as 'two evil, ruthless men'.
Perkins was declared bankrupt and divorced his wife while serving 11 years of his sentence as a Category A prisoner and failed to return after a day's home leave.
He failed to return to Springhill Prison in 1995 after a day's home leave shortly before he was due to be released on license.
Perkins was 'unlawfully at large' for 16 years and claimed he was living with his mother - an address known to authorities - and was even phoned by the governor, who said he would forget all about it if he came back.
He took up work as a 'man with a van', worked in a recording studio with his cousin and even registered with his local GP.
Perkins was also a regular at The Harlequin pub, near the Sadler's Wells theatre, at the Angel.
He set himself up as a property and, like a number of other members of the Hatton Garden gang, lived in Enfield.
During a technical hitch at a preliminary court hearing, he called out: 'Could you ask the judge and yourselves to come down so we can have tea together?'
THE 'WALTER MITTY' ECCENTRIC WHO SLEPT IN HIS MOTHER'S DRESSING GOWN WITH A FEZ ON AND WAS OBSESSED WITH LIFE IN THE ARMY
Daniel Jones was described as an 'eccentric Walter Mitty' character during the trial when one of the accused men told of his strange habits.
The 58-year-old is one of the two men who actually got through the small hole the gang drilled into the vault and went through safety deposit boxes before handing out the loot.
He was caught on CCTV wearing an eccentric outfit during the raid, complete with striped trousers, a hi-viz waistcoat, red trainers and a navy baseball cap.
Police found a box of dust masks, the book 'Forensics for Dummies', a drill, balaclavas and a walkie-talkie at his house.
Ahead of the trial, he was involved in a bizarre episode where he wrote to Sky News correspondent Martin Brunt and claimed he was trying to show police where he had buried his share of the cash and jewels stolen during the raid.
He was finally allowed out of his cell at Belmarsh, but showed officers only a fraction of what was buried at the cemetery.
He led police a grave stone where he had hidden a bag of stolen gold, jewellery and gemstones but he did not tell them about another spot in the same cemetery where two more bags were stashed under the memorial stone to his children's grandfather.
The trial heard Jones, of Enfield, was 'eccentric to extremes' and would speak to his white-haired terrier dog, Rocket, as if it were human.
He was also obsessed with the army and keeping fit - often going to bed in a sleeping bag on his bedroom floor and urinating into a bottle, an associate told the jury.
Accused Carl Wood told the court: 'Danny is a very sensitive guy, a very funny man. Eccentric to extremes, that everyone who knew Danny would say he was mad. He would go to bed in his mother's dressing gown with a fez on.'
Jones has a lengthy criminal record dating back to 1975, with convictions for robbery, handling stolen goods and and burglary.
THE 'WOMBAT-THICK' VAN DRIVER WHO 'LOST THE PLOT' AFTER THE RAID
John 'Kenny' Collins, 75, was part of the Islington side of the gang and has a long string of convictions for crimes including robbery, handling stolen goods and fraud dating back to 1961.
He was the driver for the gang waited in vehicles outside the safety deposit company on both nights of the Hatton Garden raid and acted as a lookout. It was his link to the white Mercedes which the first step in police tracking down the raiders.
He also drove the white Ford Transit van which was used in the heist.
The court heard he was described as 'wombat-thick' by his accomplices and prosecutors said he 'lost the plot' in the weeks after the raid.
Collins lives with William Lincoln's sister. He is said to have used the two men and Hugh Doyle, his close friend, as he attempted to hide his share of the loot.
A large amount of cash, watches, coins, jewellery and a money counter were found at his home in Islington – which is just five minutes from Hatton Garden.
Neighbours were shocked by his involvement, describing his as a 'nice geezer' who loved walking his dog.
During the raid, he was caught on CCTV wearing a smart green quilted cap and carrying a briefcase as he took up a look-out post in the building opposite.
He spent some time trying to open the door, to which he is believed to have secured a key from one of the many contractors who had one.
Studios and offices inside the building offered a clear view of both doors to the target building and Collins was armed with a walkie-talkie to communicate with the gang.
But he apparently nodded off on the job and had to be woken up by one of his accomplices. In a conversation recorded by police, Jones says of Collins: 'Kenny lets get things right. You got money for nothing mate. You sat up there and fell asleep.' Perkins added: 'And basil came over and woke you up and embarrassed ya.'
THE HEAVILY-INDEBTED CROHN'S SUFFERER WHO WAS VOUCHED FOR BY AN OLD MEMBER OF A PREVIOUS HEIST GANG
Carl Wood, 58, was a trusted associate of the ringleaders, recruited as an 'extra pair of hands' to pull off the heist.
Wood grew up in Hackney, has been married to wife Paula for 19 years and has two adult daughters who have children of their own.
He was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in his early 20s, an inflammatory bowel disease which he claimed often left him bed-ridden and in agony.
In conversations recorded by police bugs, Terry Perkins suggests Wood was vouched for by his old friend Billy Hickson, who stood trial alongside Perkins over the £6million Security Express heist.
Wood was around £20,000 in debt, but in January 2015 attended the Adventure Travel Show, at the Kensington Olympia, featuring 'once-in-a-lifetime travel experiences' in apparent anticipation of his future wealth.
In 1993 he stood trial with two police officers, who had teamed up with crook Robert Kean in a bid to recover £600,000 owed to the villain by an underworld financier.
They were caught by police corruption busters who secretly filmed them at the hotel as Wood was heard bragging how he would beat the debtor with an iron bar after claiming he owed him £80,000.
He was jailed for four years for his role in the plot. Morgan was branded 'despicable' as he was jailed for seven years, Costello was jailed for 30 months and Kean was given a seven-year sentence.
As the Hatton Garden ringleaders began to formulate their plan, Wood, who rides a black Honda motorbike, was working intermittently as a dogsbody for Crews Hill Construction.
He did not attend the planning meetings, but was regularly updated by his friend of 30 years, Daniel Jones.
The pair would regularly meet for walks followed by sandwiches and coffee at their local gardening centre.
Dressed in dark clothing, hi-visibility waistcoat and navy baseball cap and wearing a white surgeon's style mask dark gloves and glasses, Wood was one of the men who entered 88-90 Hatton Garden on the first night of the raid.
He did not take part in the second night.
'BILLY THE FISH': MARKET TRADER HELPED MOVE ON THE STOLEN GOODS
William 'Billy' Lincoln, 60, was recruited by ringleader John 'Kenny' Collins as a trusted family member to control a large part of the loot following the heist.
Lincoln's aunt Milly Garrett lived with Collins as his common law wife in Islington.
He has a string of convictions for attempted burglary, burglary and attempted theft between 1975 and 1985, but his most recent conviction was for battery in 2013.
The proud Eastender attacked a gang of youths with a chair because they were causing trouble on his street in Bethnal Green.
The married father-of-two was a well known character at the famous Billingsgate fish market where he would buy haddock, kippers, eels and salmon to sell on to friends and family members.
He would relax at the Georgian Porchester Spa, in Westminster, a Turkish baths specialising in 'Schmeissing' (a Yiddish term for the treatment where men are beaten with a large soapy brush).
But with a double hip replacement and a bladder problem, which left him incontinent, Lincoln, who lives off disability benefits, was not part of the team put together to go into the building.
Lincoln was instrumental in organising the exchange of the bags of loot and was arrested after police boxed in his black Audi A3 before smashing the window and dragging him out of the car.
Lincoln dropped off Brian Reader at London Bridge train station after he pulled out of the heist and was on hand to take three holdall bags, stuffed with gems from the raid, off Collins' hands on 6 April.
He jetted off to the Greek island of Symi where he fished for two weeks.
Lincoln was later instrumental in organising the exchange of the bags at the Wheatsheaf pub car park in Enfield, and was arrested after police boxed in his black Audi A3 before smashing the window and dragging him out of the car.
When his terraced house was searched officers found four plastic bags of jewellery.
One was hidden under the skirting board while another was in the cupboard under the stairs.
IRISH AMATEUR PILOT WHO LET HIS OFFICE BE USED BY THE GANG
Hugh Doyle, 48, was a trusted friend of John 'Kenny' Collins who offered up his workshop as an exchange point for the handover of stolen goods.
Born in Ireland, Doyle moved to the UK from Dublin when he was 17, later meeting his partner of 20 years Jenny Fraser, with whom he has two children.
The dyslexic gas engineer set up a business called 'Associated Response' with his partner around seven years ago from their home in Enfield.
In 2014 they took over the lease of a converted old sheep shed to use as an office from Punch Breweries, the company that owns the Wheatsheaf pub sharing a car park with the business premises.
Doyle was not party to the planning of the burglary and never went to Hatton Garden, but was contacted by John 'Kenny' Collins, who he had known since the late 1990s, when he needed somewhere to exchange the stolen loot.
Collins was given a key to the padlock that secured the wooden doors to the small brick-built shed, but instead carried out the handover in the pub car park, in full view of CCTV cameras.
Doyle was arrested along with the gang's ringleaders on 19 May, charged with conspiracy to burgle and remanded in Belmarsh prison's most secure unit alongside Britain's most dangerous criminals and terrorists.
The amateur pilot was not allowed visits from his family for three-and-a-half months, spending most of his time behind bars exercising.
Doyle lost two stone in weight and got hold of a copy of Christopher Hitchens' 'God is not Great' so he was better equipped to discuss religion with extremists on his wing.
But when the burglary charge was dropped just a week before the trial was due to start, Doyle was granted bail and fitted with an electronic tag and told to abide by a 9pm to 6am curfew.
Granted his freedom, Doyle would do plumbing jobs before and after the court day, arriving in his company branded van and wearing his work uniform in the dock.
The friendly and talkative defendant knew reporters and court staff by name, even offering his professional services to some journalists, who happily took his mobile phone number.
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