Brian Reader

Career criminal convicted for the 2015 Hatton Garden safe-deposit burglary and previously linked by conviction history to major robbery networks.

Editorial standard

the archive separates convictions, charges, allegations, acquittals and later media descriptions. Cross-links show documented or clearly contextual relationships and do not automatically imply shared criminal conduct.

Profile overview

Career criminal convicted for the 2015 Hatton Garden safe-deposit burglary and previously linked by conviction history to major robbery networks.

Documented criminal context

This profile is built around convictions, formal court outcomes and well-sourced reporting. Where a person is linked to a broader criminal network without a court finding of joint conduct, the relationship is explicitly treated as contextual.

Why this person matters to the archive

The value of this profile is not only the biography. It is a graph node connecting people, organizations, events, places and cases so readers can move through the real structure of British organized crime rather than isolated articles.

Network links

– Hatton Garden burglary — participant; convicted – Hatton Garden, London — burglary location – British professional robbery networks — career context

Direct people links

– Terry Perkins — fellow Hatton Garden burglar – Danny Jones — fellow Hatton Garden burglar – John Collins — fellow Hatton Garden burglar

Sources

– The Guardian. Hatton Garden burglar Brian Reader jailed (2016-03-09). https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/09/hatton-garden-burglar-brian-reader-jailed

Connected records

Documented network

Hatton Garden burglary (event) is recorded in the canonical graph as participant convicted, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

Hatton Garden, London (location) is recorded in the canonical graph as burglary location, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

Terry Perkins (person) is recorded in the canonical graph as fellow hatton garden burglar, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

Danny Jones (person) is recorded in the canonical graph as fellow hatton garden burglar, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

John Collins (person) is recorded in the canonical graph as fellow hatton garden burglar, documented status, 90% confidence. This is the stored relationship and should not be expanded beyond what the source record supports.

Timeline and case connections

Structured events are kept separate from general biography so later audits can update a date, conviction, organizational change, killing or court outcome without rewriting unrelated material.

Date not specified in current profile sources — Hatton Garden burglary. participant; convicted

Status and record

The structured birth record lists 1939. The structured life-status field is alive. This administrative field should change only when a reliable current source supports an update.

Source record

The current Master package attaches the following evidence sources to this profile: – Hatton Garden burglar Brian Reader jailed — The Guardian, Tier 2.

Each source supports only the claims tied to it. Structured source references remain attached so later audits can trace timeline and relationship records back to evidence.

Evidence and editorial boundaries

For living subjects especially, legal claims and current status require dated sourcing. Future expansion should therefore come from stronger records or newly processed canonical entities rather than unsourced crime lore.

How this profile fits the archive

The current source package includes Hatton Garden burglar Brian Reader jailed. These records define the safe editorial boundary for the page. A later pass should prioritize new primary documents, court outcomes, dated organizational changes, prison history or newly processed books and screen works rather than adding generic background.

Research state

This depth pass expands the page from structured evidence already present in the Master. The profile should return to audit when a new source materially changes chronology, legal status, organizational role or media connections. Add the structured fact first, then update prose so narrative and knowledge graph remain synchronized.

Media remains a separate gate. A portrait should be attached only after source page, provenance and reuse status are checked. Until then, a profile can be text-complete while still carrying an explicit media-review requirement.