Hatton Garden ringleaders John "Kenny" Collins, 75, Danny Jones, 61, and Terry Perkins, 67, have been jailed for a combined 21 years, at Woolwich Crown Court.

The crooks heard their fate, for the biggest burglary in British history, this afternoon (March 9).

All three men pleaded guilty to their crimes and were given reduced sentences, seven years in jail, as a result.

Meanwhile, Carl Wood, 59, was jailed for six years and Bill Lincoln, 60, for seven.

Both men denied their involvement in the raids, but were found guilty following a trial at Woolwich.

The ageing gang, with a combined age of 448, carried out the "sophisticated" and meticulously planned break-in over the Easter weekend last year.

Less than a year after the audacious raid, six of the seven men convicted in connection with the burglary were being sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court and were handed 34 year terms as a result.

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Hugh Doyle, the only one of the six who was allowed to be out on bail, escaped a jail term.

He had a lesser role in the raid - having allowed the gang to stash part of their loot on his property.

He has been handed a 21-month sentence, suspended for two years.

Judge Christopher Kinch QC said: "The burglary of the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit vault in April 2015 has been labelled by many - including some defendants and advocates in this case - as the biggest burglary in English legal history.

"Whether that assertion is capable of proof, I do not know. However, it is clear that the burglary at the heart of this case stands in a class of its own in the scale of the ambition, the detail of the planning, the level of preparation and the organisation of the team carrying it out, and in terms of the value of the property stolen."

Dartford's Brian Reader, 76, will be sentenced at a later date - after suffering a stroke in Belmarsh Prison.