By Martin Brunt, Crime Correspondent
Some of the UK's top footballers could be among the victims of the Hatton Garden safe deposit raid.
Jewellers who store gems at the diamond centre in Holborn, central London, do commission work for a number of Premier League stars, a source told Sky News.
They work on high-priced orders for wives and girlfriends and for the footballers themselves.
"Players have almost unlimited spending power and love to outdo each other with extravagant purchases, especially where jewellery is concerned," said the source.
"It's only natural they would go to the renowned craftsmen of Hatton Garden to place their orders."
The players affected are likely to play for the top London clubs, but it is thought stars of other clubs visit the dozens of jewellers in Hatton Garden when they are playing or partying in London.
Flying squad detectives said up to 70 safe deposit boxes were broken open, but they had not informed the victims because forensic work was still going on.
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The raiders are believed to have broken into the building through the roof and abseiled down a lift shaft.
Heavy cutting equipment was then used get into a vault, believed to be reinforced with thick metal and concrete doors, up to 2ft thick.
The stolen jewellery and precious stones, which could be worth millions of pounds, will already be out of the country, former Flying Squad chief Barry Phillips believes.
He described the heist as "sophisticated" and "highly organised" and said it would have been carried out by a "professional team".
Questions have been raised about security at the premises amid reports guards responded to an alarm on Friday, but left without checking inside.
Safe deposit box owner Gerry Landon said he found the break-in "unbelievable".
"Apparently, as you may have read, the alarm went off at one o'clock on Friday and the security guards came down," Mr Landon said.
"They more or less looked through the window to see that there was no activity there - and then they left."
Neil Duttson, a diamond dealer who buys stones for private clients, said tracing gems stolen in the heist would be nearly impossible.
"Once diamonds have been re-cut and polished there is no geological map," he said.
"I imagine they will be sat on for six months. You can expect some cheap diamonds will be coming on the market soon."
Police have not put a value on the goods stolen, but estimates vary widely from hundreds of thousands of pounds to £200m.
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