The safe deposit box firm hit by the £10 million Hatton Garden jewellery heist will shut down after trade slumped in the wake of the high-profile theft.

A father and son from Dartford are amongst 13 people set to face trial in connection with the heist which took place over the Easter weekend.

The Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company, owned by Sudanese father and son Mahendra and Manish Bavish, has appointed accountancy firm SPW as liquidators.

The liquidation of the business will be led by SPW's Stella Davis and Harold Sorsky. Ms Davis confirmed the firm was appointed on August 24.

The safe deposit firm is understood to have seen a sharp drop off in trade since the burglary on April 2, with fewer people willing to place their valuables at the exclusive central London location.

A total of 13 defendants are due to appear at Woolwich Crown Court on Friday charged in connection with the heist.

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Hatton Garden defendants in court. Front row left to right: Paul Reader, William Lincoln, John Collins, Brian Reader and Hugh Doyle. Back row left to right: Daniel Jones, Terry Perkins (obscured) and Carl Wood.

Father and son Brian Reader, 76, and Paul Reader, 50, both of Dartford Road, are charged with conspiracy to burgle between April 1 and April 7 this year.

Carl Wood, 58, from Hertfordshire, taxi driver John Harbinson, 42, from Essex, Terry Perkins, 67, Daniel Jones, 58, and Hugh Doyle, 48, all from Enfield, William Lincoln, 60, of Bethnal Green, and John Collins, 74, from Islington all face the same charge.

It is alleged they conspired together to enter Hatton Garden Safe Deposit in London's jewellery quarter, with the intent to steal.

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Dartford's Brian Reader, 76.

The Easter weekend raid saw thieves drill a hole 20in (51cm) deep, 10in (25cm) high and 18in (46cm) wide into the vault wall at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit, before making off with the goods.

Police believe they entered through a communal entrance of the building, before disabling the lift and climbing down the shaft to the basement.

Once inside, the thieves ransacked 73 safety deposit boxes, taking items worth millions of pounds.