CCTV footage reportedly showing the men behind the Hatton Garden jewel heist has emerged, after it was revealed the police initially failed to go to the scene despite being alerted by an alarm.
The 17-minute video purportedly shows at least six men arriving at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company's building in London's jewellery quarter on Good Friday.
The Daily Mirror, which obtained the footage, reported that the group made two separate visits before leaving in a white van on Easter Sunday with the contents of 72 safety deposit boxes in wheelie bins and bags.
Scotland Yard is examining the footage, and has insisted it was already aware of the video before it was published by the newspaper.
The spokesman added the force has "not made any links" between the heist and an underground fire in the Holborn area days earlier which caused widespread power outages and road closures.
Police are also continuing to investigate why a call from a security firm about the alarm was graded in a way that meant officers did not consider it worthy of a response.
It was not until Tuesday morning that the raid - one of Britain's biggest - was discovered.
The police could face compensation claims running into the millions because officers failed to respond to the alarm, it has also been claimed.
An industry source told the Daily Telegraph insurers could take civil action to recoup losses if they have to pay out to customers.
The Daily Mirror footage is from a camera that centres on a doorway, with an adjacent intercom, at the bottom of a set of stairs that leads to the street.
A number of men appear wearing high-visibility jackets, builder's hats, gloves and dust masks and carrying orange tool boxes and holdalls.
Others in the group are dressed in blue overalls and gloves.
Three men with their faces covered are seen taking wheelie bins in and out of the building.
A white van is seen pulling up shortly before 7am on Sunday, the newspaper reported, and once the bins and bags are loaded into it, the group get in and drive away.
Police have insisted it is too early to say if the handling of the call about the alert would have had an impact on the outcome.
But the revelations have led to anger from potential victims, who spoke of their shock that the police "just weren't there".
Michael Miller, from Knightsbridge, who may have lost £50,000 in uninsured jewellery, said: "I am just so shocked and disappointed to hear the police didn't answer that alarm.
"I mean before, we thought maybe the police didn't even know about that but now we know that they knew something was wrong.
"This completely changes things, the knowledge that something could have been done.
"The police pride themselves on being somewhere in a couple of minutes, but on this occasion they just weren't there."
A store owner near the scene, who did not wish to be named, said: "It's just shocking that someone didn't answer that call that came in when the alarm went off.
"You think what on earth isn't a high priority call if it's isn't a safe deposit alarm going off in there.
"I know they're investigating, but really what is the good of that when the damage is done?"
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