London diamond district thieves get up to 7 years in prison

The mostly elderly gang drilled through a concrete vault wall in the Hatton Garden diamond district in April and ransacked more than 70 safe-deposit boxes in a heist that has been described as the largest burglary in English legal history.

Five of the men were sentenced at the Woolwich Crown Court to prison terms of six or seven years, while the sixth received a suspended sentence for his lesser role in "concealing, converting or transferring criminal property" related to the heist.