«Breaking News» Hatton Garden jewel thief was freed in time for Christmas - halfway through his sentence

John 'Kenny' Collins, 78, was given a seven-year sentence but freed after serving just half of it

The ringleader behind the infamous Hatton Garden jewellery heist has been released from prison after serving just half of his seven-year sentence.

John 'Kenny' Collins, 78, spent Christmas at home, according to the Mirror, returning to the council house where he and the rest of his gang divvied up the gems after the daring raid on the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd in 2015.

Collins, who fell asleep while on lookout during the famous burglary, was released on licence from Belmarsh prison in South East London a month ago.

His release means only one out of the four criminals responsible for the heist is still behind bars, despite millions of pounds worth of jewellery still being missing.

Former Met Police chief Peter Kirkham said: 'We are talking about lots of victims.

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Collins (circled) caught on CCTV meeting fellow burglars Terry Perkins and Brian Reader in the Castle Public House, Pentonville Road after the raid

'Some of them have lost everything, their ­livelihoods as jewellery dealers and some may not have been insured.

'It can destroy people's lives and the maximum sentence available to the judge was only 10 years. This is ­inadequate for top end burglaries with so many victims.' 

Collins was responsible for the gang being caught after driving his own Mercedes to the heist and being tailed by police.

The thief, who is said to suffer from high blood pressure, arthritis and diabetes is still in danger of going back to prison for seven years if he fails to pay a £6.5million confiscation order brought against him and three other ringleaders.  

Holes bored through a half-meter thick concrete wall drilled to access the safe deposit vault in Hatton Garden

Collins was said to have been the wealthiest of all the Hatton Gardens thieves, with more than £1million in cash and assets so far seized by cops. 

His £175,000 flat on the Costa del Sol in Spain has been taken over by police, who also found nearly £700,000 in his bank accounts.

After a court ruling, he is required to hand over another £410,000, but has been given permission to challenge his repayment amount by the Court of Appeal. 

It is understood Collins will remain free until that is settled, and a hearing is due to take place in February. 

The other gang members have all been released apart from Danny Jones, 63, who was jailed last year for an extra three years for another burglary. 

HATTON GARDEN RAID

Danny Jones and Terry Perkins both admitted conspiracy to burgle over the Hatton Garden raid and were each jailed for seven years in 2016.

John 'Kenny' Collins, 77, was jailed for seven years, while Brian Reader, 78, - dubbed the 'guv'nor' - was handed a jail term of six years and three months after they both admitted the offence.

Carl Wood, 60, and William 'Billy the Fish' Lincoln, 61, were found guilty of conspiracy to burgle and conspiracy to launder money last year after a seven-week trial at Woolwich Crown Court and are serving sentences of six and seven years respectively.

John Collins (top left), 77, and Daniel Jones (top centre), 63, appeared in the dock at Woolwich Crown Court while Terry Perkins (top right), 69, was not well enough to attend the hearing. Bottom row, left to right: Carl Wood (59), William Lincoln, 60, and Hugh Doyle

Gas fitter Hugh Doyle, 50, was found guilty of money laundering and handed a suspended prison sentence

The raiders were ordered to pay back £27.5m or face a total of 28 years extra in jail at Woolwich Crown Court in January this year.

The confiscation hearing closed the book on the audacious gem heist carried out by the gang dubbed the Dad's Army gang and the 'Diamond Wheezers'.

Perkins died in Belmarsh Prison in February this year after suffering a heart attack.

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John ‘Kenny’ Collins, 78, was given a seven-year sentence but freed after serving just half of it

The ringleader behind the infamous Hatton Garden jewellery heist has been released from prison after serving just half of his seven-year sentence.
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