Nine ways the Hatton Garden heist is just like a Guy Ritchie film

"Ringleaders" - Brian Reader, Kenny Collins, Terry Perkins, Daniel Jones - old-fashioned crime methods led police to their doorsteps

Guy Ritchie: "So here's my new movie idea. A bunch of elderly cons get together to pull off one last job."

Thanks Guy but it sort of sounds like all your other films. Why's this one different?

"There'll be abseiling in it."

Now you're talking.

The Hatton Garden heist was carried out by seasoned criminals but the hard-to-believe details certainly sound like a Guy Ritchie film.

Here are nine examples.

The lead character's called The Guv'nor

Brian Reader has a drink at Scotti's Cafe in Clerkenwell Green, London

A classic cliche film name.

But that's what 76-year-old Brian Reader was genuinely known as.

He's a seasoned con who's got previous.

Some of the jewels recovered after the heist

Back in 1983, he was part of the armed gang that stole £28m in gold bullion from Heathrow airport.

After the Hatton Garden raid, detectives searched his house and found a book on the diamond underworld, a diamond tester, a diamond gauge and a diamond magazine.

The man likes diamonds.

The plan was ingenious. And simple

John Collins, Terry Perkins and Brian Reader drink at the Castle pub on Pentonville Road, London

The idea for "one last job" was thrashed out down the pub, over pints and vodka tonics.

"Basil" gets hold of a key, walks through the front door and lets the others in round the back.

Everyone's dressed as workmen in high vis jackets so no-one bats an eyelid as they lug their gear into the building.

Then the plot just gets silly

The ageing criminals then abseil down a disused lift shaft with all their gear.

With the building empty for the Easter weekend, they then bypass the huge safe door, using a specialist diamond-tipped drill to bore through a thick concrete wall.

The drill used to get into the vault is photographed by Met police officers

When they realise the hole's in the wrong place, they come back the next day to carry on where they left off - smashing their way through safety-deposit boxes and carting off around £14m of gold and jewellery hidden in holdalls and wheelie bins.

Carl Wood was found guilty of conspiracy to commit burglary and conspiracy to conceal, convert or transfer criminal property

There's a close shave with a security guard

The gang accidentally trip an alarm. A drop of sweat hits the floor in super slo-mo.

The alarm system at Hatton Garden Safety Deposit Ltd was taken out of action

A security guard is scrambled from home.

He checks the external doors but is told not to enter until the police turn up. They don't. So he goes home.

There's a proper jaw-dropping moment

That bit where the police must have come in and just stared in bewildered awe at the huge hole in the wall.

Everyone's speechless, brains are whirring as to what's gone on.

Eventually, someone says something like predictable like: "You might want to take a look at this Sarge."

It looks like the perfect crime

This book about police forensics was found at one of the men's homes

No fingerprints, no leads and the CCTV hard drives were missing.

We're dealing with proper pros, think the police.

There's talk of it being the work of an elite Russian gang - with the loot being smuggled out of Britain within hours of it being stolen.

The gang make some schoolboy errors

John 'Kenny' Collins (in white car) and Hugh Doyle (standing between cars) at the The Old Wheatsheaf Pub beside Doyle's workshop in Enfield

If you're going to pull off Britain's biggest ever burglary, don't use your own motor.

One of the gang had used his own car to case the Hatton Garden area.

Kenny Collins was also filmed walking past Tobi Gem Setting in Hatton Garden

Detectives spotted it on CCTV and traced it to Kenny Collins, a thief with a criminal record dating back to 1961.

He looks like he's worth a visit.

Good old-fashioned policing wins the day

Stolen goods are transferred from Jon Harbinson's silver Mercedes taxi into Kenny Collins' white Mercedes

Police launch a huge surveillance operation. Collins leads them to Brian Reader (The Guv'nor).

Detectives then overhear a plan to move some of the loot and watch as £4m worth of stolen goods is put in the back of Collins' Merc.

The gang's caught practically red handed. But "Basil" is still on the run.

Later, some of the jewels are found, not in Russia but buried in a grave in a North London cemetery.

Some stolen items were found hidden under a gravestone at Edmonton Cemetery in London

BUT....

Where's Basil? He let his co-conspirators into the Hatton Garden building by opening the fire escape from inside

Millions of pounds worth of gems are still missing. So is Basil. Where is he and where's the rest of the haul?

There's probably a sequel in that.

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