Brian ‘Master’ Reader used free travel pass on way to £14m London heist

One of the men who has pleaded guilty to the biggest heist in British history used a free travel pass belonging to someone else to travel to the scene of the £14 million robbery.

Woolwich Crown Court has heard how the 76-year-old experienced criminal, Brian Reader, used a London Council over-60s Freedom Pass issued in the name of a Mr T McCarthy to get to London’s jewellery quarter on the night of April 2 where the Hatton Garden heist took place.

Oyster card records show the pensioner boarded the number 96 bus from near his home in Dartford, before exiting Waterloo East station at around 6.30pm.