How 8 Elderly Men Called ‘Bad Grandpas’ Stole $20 Million in Jewels

How 8 Elderly Men Called ‘Bad Grandpas’ Stole $20 Million in Jewels
A policewoman enters a Hatton Garden safe deposit center in London, England on April 7, 2015. The underground safety deposits were robbed by the 'Bad Grandpas.' Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
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Eight experienced criminals dubbed the “Bad Grandpas,” who stole jewels worth $20 million from underground safety deposits in London, are the subject of a new book. It describes in detail how the elderly men robbed the deposit boxes, where they went wrong, and how they were caught and convicted.

Aged between 52 and 73 at the time, the eight seniors made a plan to break into the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit in the diamond district of London while drinking and eating fish and chips in a pub in 2012, according to the New York Post.
Venus Upadhayaya
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Venus Upadhayaya reports on India, China, and the Global South. Her traditional area of expertise is in Indian and South Asian geopolitics. Community media, sustainable development, and leadership remain her other areas of interest.
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