The mastermind behind the Hatton Garden heist is reportedly set to make £2.5 million after selling three houses on his Kent estate.

Brian Reader, from Dartford, headed a gang of men responsible for stealing a haul of at least £14 million of jewels, gold and cash from an underground safe deposit facility in London.

The career criminal also assisted Kenneth Noye in the disposal of gold bullion from the notorious Brink's-Mat robbery – recently depicted in BBC drama The Gold.

Now, according to the Daily Mail, the 84-year-old is poised to rake in £2.5 million from the sale of his 7,149 sq ft estate in Dartford Road.

It is reported that a four-bedroom home called Pentire appears to have sold for £900,000, and two more four-bedroom houses, called Holly and Laurel, have sold for £800,000 each.

Reader had previously been ordered to sell the homes in 2019 by the Court of Appeal.

The Daily Mail reports he had nearly completed the houses Holly and Laurel in his back garden before the Hatton Garden raid. He is said to have hoped money from some of the £10 million in jewels the group reportedly sold would help him finish off the project.

In its listing, estate agents Clifton & Co described Pentire as a villa-style home, which incorporated “decorative brickwork and many period features”.

Holly and Laurel were described as new-build family homes which are Victorian in design, and have been “built with unrivalled attention to detail combining elegance and luxury in a much sought after location”.

Following his involvement in the infamous Brink’s-Mat robbery in 1983, Reader was chosen to mastermind the audacious Hatton Garden raid.

In April 2015, posing as gas repairmen, the Hatton Garden gang gained access to the building before boring a hole through a thick concrete wall and breaking into a vault.

Only about a third of the haul has been recovered after the thieves ransacked 73 safety deposit boxes.

Reader, who ran a used car dealership, had pulled out of the raid after a failed break-in attempt on the first night when the gang's drill broke. But he continued to meet up with the other ring-leaders following the heist.

The pensioner also used somebody else's Freedom Pass to get a bus to Hatton Garden on the night of the raid.

He was filmed on CCTV in the area wearing a distinctive red scarf later found at his Dartford home, where he was later arrested.

Police found diamond magazines, a book on the gem underworld, a diamond tester and a diamond gauge at Reader’s home when it was raided.

He was jailed for six years after admitting conspiracy to burgle, but was released after serving less than three.

During the Brinks-Mat raid, which remains Britain’s biggest gold robbery, £26 million worth of gold bullion and diamonds were taken from a warehouse near Heathrow Airport.

Reader was suspected of laundering the proceeds - alongside fellow criminal Kenneth Noye - and both were placed under surveillance.

One evening, the pair spotted Det Con John Fordham spying on them in the grounds of Noye’s home in Kent. Noye stabbed the detective 11 times in the back.

Noye and Reader were placed on trial for murder but were acquitted.

However, the police had found 11 gold bullion bars at the West Kingsdown property and the pair were later jailed for conspiracy to handle stolen goods.

KentOnline has contacted Clifton and Co for comment