A ringleader in the Hatton Garden jewellery heist has been sent back to prison for seven years for failing to repay millions of pounds.
John Kenneth Collins, who served as a lookout during the 2015 London raid, was previously ordered to pay back £7.6million.
Collins, 78, sat outside the central London safe deposit building all night as his accomplices emptied the vault.
The raider famously fell asleep while on lookout, a moment depicted in the film King of Thieves, the heist-inspired film starring Michael Caine.
Adrian Foster, chief crown prosecutor for CPS Proceeds of Crime, said: “John Collins was a key player in the Hatton Garden burglary and benefitted from millions of pounds from his crimes.
“The CPS showed the court that Collins still had assets and funds to pay the order but had chosen not to do so and it followed that his default sentence should be activate.
“Collins will now face this extra time in prison while his confiscation order still stands to be paid.”
Collins, described by one gangmate as a “wombat-thick c***” in covert police recordings, took the burglars back to his house after the raid.
It was at his property that they divided up the £14million loot, however the gang had to stop early to keep the crime a secret from Collins' wife, who was on her way home.
The criminal, known as Kenny, was arrested shortly after the raid and was jailed for seven years, although he only served three.
Collins, who has high blood pressure , diabetes and arthritis , has been ordered to pay back more than £5million as part of a confiscation order, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Scotland Yard is still searching for unrecovered items stolen in the raid.
The gang, led by Brian Reader, then 76, broke into the vault of London’s Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company over the Easter weekend in 2015.
On the first night, they entered the building, disabled the lift, climbed down the shaft to the basement, disabled the alarm and drilled three holes through half-a-metre thick concrete.
After the ten-tonne jack they were using to topple metal shelving on the other side of the hole broke, the gang returned two nights later – without Reader – to complete the raid.
Reader, Perkins, then aged 67, John “Kenny” Collins, 75, Danny Jones, 60, Carl Wood, 58 and William “Billy the Fish” Lincoln, 60 – were jailed for up to seven years each in March 2016 for conspiracy to commit burglary.
The final gang member Michael “Basil” Seed, 58, was arrested last year and jailed in March for 10 years.
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