Convicted burglar and mastermind of the Hatton Garden jewellery raid Brian Reader has been released from prison, the Sun reports.
Reader, from Dartford, was given a six year and three month sentence after he was convicted of breaking into the safe deposit centre in London.
After serving three years of that term, he has now been let out of prison and has been spotted around Dartford.
It was recently reported that Reader, now 79, would face a further seven years in jail if he could not pay the £6.5 million confiscation order given to him and his six accomplices.
Reader and his gang made headlines in Easter of 2015 when they stole up to £200 million of valuables from the underground centre by drilling a human-sized hole in the 50 cm thick wall and crawling through it.
In May of the same year, Reader was arrested in connection with the burglary by flying squad officers.
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