Michael Seed is thought to be “Basil”, the elusive tenth man in the Hatton Garden robbery ELIZABETH COOK/PAA jewellery designer believed to be the mysterious tenth man in the Hatton Garden heist is the son of a pioneering Cambridge biophysicist, The Times can reveal. Michael Seed, 57, appeared in court yesterday accused of being the fugitive dubbed “The Ghost” and known only as Basil to his alleged co-conspirators in the £29 million raid. The shadowy tenth gang member has been wanted for almost three years after nine gangsters, some of whom were in their seventies, drilled into the vault at the Hatton Garden Safety Deposit Centre in central London. Mr Seed’s father, Dr John Seed, was a biophysicist at Cambridge University who published several papers on DNA in the 1960s after the discovery of its double-helix structure. He was a leading figure…

Source: The Times March 29, 2018 23:00 UTC