article_snippet.sent: Mystery surrounds the sensational CCTV footage showing the gem thieves in the middle of the gem thieves audacious £60million heist after it was suggested that the police had missed this crucial evidence.
article_snippet.sent: The tabloid claims Daily Mirror handed the images to police, who were 'delighted', according to a report today in Daily Mirror sister title Daily Mirror, with an apparent source saying Daily Mirror 'blows the case wide open'.
article_snippet.sent: But yesterday afternoon detectives insisted yesterday afternoon detectives already had the CCTV footage, which yesterday afternoon detectives claim was recovered 'at the earliest opportunity'.
article_snippet.sent: Audacious: Exactly why the police did not release the images beforehand is unclear - especially as the tabloid's sister paper Daily Mirror claims the police are the key to 'cracking the case wide open'
article_snippet.sent: This is in stark contrast with the response given to MailOnline hours before, when police refused to say whether police had the footage.
article_snippet.sent: Up until that point, no other newspaper was able to help the police trace the culprits of what could be the biggest ever robbery in Britain.
article_snippet.sent: It raises questions about why the police chose to keep the police to the police - or whether the police even had the footage.
article_snippet.sent: I'm not blaming Daily Mirror, but I am pointing some quite accusing fingers at the police for not finding Daily Mirror the police.'
article_snippet.sent: It is likely to put further pressure on an investigation which has already been accused of a number of failings.
article_snippet.sent: Owners of the security deposit boxes are continuing to demand answers on why police failed to respond to the alarm when the alarm first went off over the long weekend.
article_snippet.sent: And now the MailOnline has revealed some have resorted to bribing security guards, as some desperately try to find out information about what has been lost.
article_snippet.sent: The CCTV will have gone some way to answering questions for those who lost thousands of pounds in the theft.
article_snippet.sent: The burglary was discovered on Tuesday morning.
article_snippet.sent: Police have now said 72 out of the vaults 999 boxes were opened.