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==Convictions== ;Anthony Black Black was sentenced to six years for robbery.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Summers |first=Chris |date=28 January 2008 |title=The role of the 'inside man' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7154191.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305073600/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7154191.stm |archive-date=5 March 2012 |access-date=12 November 2015 |website=[[BBC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=18 February 1984|page=1|last=Tendler|first=Stewart|title=£26m robbery guard jailed for 6 years}}</ref> ;Micky McAvoy, Brian Robinson Tried at the [[Old Bailey]] in December 1984, McAvoy and Robinson were [[sentence (law)|sentenced]] to 25 years' imprisonment for armed robbery.<ref name="bbc2" /><ref name="mirror.co.uk/28895598">{{cite news |last1=Pettifor |first1=Tom |last2=Gillard |first2=Michael |title=Brink's-Mat heist ringleader dies before claiming share of UK's biggest robbery |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brinks-mat-heist-ringleader-dies-28895598 |access-date=4 February 2023 |date=6 January 2023 |language=en}}</ref> McAvoy and Robinson were released from prison in 2000.<ref name="pounds 27m MAN FREED; Life"/> ;Kenneth Noye, Garth Chappell, Brian Reader, Matteo Constantino In 1986, Noye was found guilty of [[conspiracy (crime)|conspiracy]] to [[possession of stolen goods#United Kingdom|handle]] the Brink's-Mat gold, fined £500,000, plus £200,000 costs, and sentenced to 14 years in prison. He served seven years before being released in 1994.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/696969.stm Noye: From street vendor to Mr Big] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228171742/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/696969.stm |date=28 February 2009 }}. BBC News, 14 April 2000</ref> Chappell was jailed for ten years for conspiring to handle stolen goods and fined £200,000<ref name=cleared>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=2 April 1987|page=3|last=Tendler|first=Stewart|title=Jeweller cleared of melting down gold from Brink's Mat}}</ref><ref name=noye14>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=25 July 1986|page=8|last=Horsnell|first=Michael|title=Noye gets 14 years for masterminding the £26m bullion raid haul}}</ref> and Reader jailed for eight years.<ref name="bbc/news/35051392">{{cite news |title=Hatton Garden raiders were involved in two major 1983 heists |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-35051392 |access-date=4 February 2023 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=9 December 2015}}</ref><ref name="theguardian/2015/12/09/hatton-garden-brinks-mat">{{cite news |last1=Dodd |first1=Vikram |title=Hatton Garden ringleaders jailed for infamous 1980s robberies, court told |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/dec/09/hatton-garden-ringleaders-1980s-robberies-brinks-mat |access-date=4 February 2023 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=9 December 2015}}</ref><ref name="news.sky/10336589">{{cite news |title=Hatton Garden Raider Was In Brink's Mat Heist |url=https://news.sky.com/story/hatton-garden-raider-was-in-brinks-mat-heist-10336589 |work=Sky News |date=9 December 2015 |language=en}}</ref> All three men were also convicted of fraudulently conspiring to evade [[VAT]] payments.<ref name=noyeguilty>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=24 July 1986|page=8|last=Horsnell|first=Michael|title=Noye guilty of Brinks-Mat bullion plot}}</ref> Constantino was convicted of VAT fraud but acquitted of conspiring to handle stolen goods.<ref name=US>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=10 November 1986|page=3|last=Tendler|first=Stewart|title=£26m robbery leads Yard to uncover US crime link}}</ref> He was given a 12-month suspended jail sentence.<ref name=noye14/> ;Michael Relton, Kathleen McAvoy In July 1988, Michael Relton was convicted of helping launder proceeds and jailed for 12 years.<ref name="newspapers/85026202">[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85026202/gold-1988-guardian-investigation-post/ GOLD: 1988 Guardian investigation post Relton conviction, civil case] [[The Guardian]] 8 July 1988 Page 8</ref><ref name="news.bbc/3405273">{{cite news |title=Following the Brinks money trail |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3405273.stm |access-date=4 February 2023 |work=news.bbc.co.uk |date=26 January 2004}}</ref><ref name="apnews/1988-07-08"/><ref name="cnn/2001/02/09/brinks.reut">{{cite news |title=Police hunt for stolen Brink's gold |url=https://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/UK/02/09/britain.brinks.reut/ |access-date=4 February 2023 |work=[[CNN.com]] |agency=[[Reuters]] |date=February 9, 2001}}</ref> Kathleen McAvoy was convicted of conspiring to handle the stolen gold but given an 18-month suspended jail sentence.<ref name="apnews/1988-07-08">{{cite news |title=Jury Sentences Robbery Money Launderer To 12 Years |url=https://apnews.com/96f60b6797d89c5467e807bbd39eb446 |access-date=4 February 2023 |work=[[AP NEWS]] |date=July 8, 1988 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="independent/1540983">{{cite news |title=Police traced laundered money around the world: Detectives described |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/police-traced-laundered-money-around-the-world-detectives-described-it-as-a-typical-old-kent-road-armed-robbery-except-that-this-gang-had-pounds-26m-worth-of-gold-to-dispose-of-david-connett-reports-1540983.html |access-date=4 February 2023 |work=The Independent |date=17 August 1992 |language=en}}</ref> ; Gordon Parry, Brian Perry, Patrick Clark, and Jean Savage In August 1992, Gordon Parry, Brian Perry,<ref name="theguardian/2001/11/25/ukcrime">{{cite news |last1=Thompson |first1=Tony |title=Curse of the Brinks-Mat heist claims its latest victim |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/nov/25/ukcrime.tonythompson |access-date=4 February 2023 |work=The Observer |date=25 November 2001}}</ref> Patrick Clark, and Jean Savage were convicted at the [[Old Bailey]]. Parry was jailed for ten years, Perry for nine years, Clark for six and Savage for five years.<ref>{{cite news |title=Four jailed after Brink's-Mat bullion trial |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/four-jailed-after-brink-smat-bullion-trial-1540982.html |access-date=3 February 2023 |work=[[The Independent]] |date=17 August 1992 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Brink's-Mat bullion launderers guilty |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/brink-smat-bullion-launderers-guilty-1540701.html |access-date=3 February 2023 |work=[[The Independent]] |date=15 August 1992 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=times92>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=18 August 1992|page=3|title=Four jailed for plot to launder £26 million Brink's Mat haul|last1=Tendler|first1=Stewart|last2=Horsnell|first2=Michael}}</ref> A few months after leaving prison in 2001, Perry was shot dead.<ref name="bbc2"/>
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