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Two of the Hatton Garden heist gang tried to drill open a safe containing 拢40m of jewels in a previous raid that had "striking similarities", a jury has been told.

They failed, but grabbed £1m in jewellery and precious stones from display cabinets at Chatila, the Bond Street jewellers, the court heard.

Danny Jones, 59, and Terry Perkins, 68, were two of the gang who raided the Hatton Garden safe deposit centre in 2015 in which £14m worth of jewellery, gems and gold was stolen.

Prosecutor Philip Evans said of the earlier Chatila raid: "This was a premier league crime that required premier league criminals to execute it.

"Evidence relating to a later, highly similar and even more high-value burglary demonstrates that Perkins and Jones were indeed those premier league criminals who carried out this high-value burglary at Chatila."

He added: "There can be very few people who would have the necessary skills, experience and preparedness to carry out a crime with this level of high stakes, high reward and high risk.

"Very few people who would have the contacts to dispose of such huge amounts of high value jewellery. Very few people who would even know how to begin the immensely difficult and complex task of gurgling a highly secure jewellery store like this one."

Jones has pleaded guilty to the burglary at Chatila's in 2010. His DNA was found on a glove on the premises, said the prosecutor.

Perkins has denied the Chatila burglary and is on trial at Southwark Crown Court.

Scrap dealer Charles Matthews, 54, denies handling some of the loot from the Chatila burglary.

The prosecutor listed 12 similarities between the Chatila and Hatton Garden heists, including the use of a key to get in, the disabling of alarms and a lift, the use of a lift shaft, the use of high-visibility jackets to disguise the raiders as workmen and the theft of an internal CCTV hard drive.

Mr Evans told jurors: "The similarities... are striking. Those similarities are not explained by coincidence, but because Perkins and Jones were involved in both. You will hear in detail about the Hatton Garden burglary and will be able to compare it to that in this case and see the similarities for yourself."

Like the Hatton Garden heist, the Chatila raid happened over a long bank holiday weekend.

Jurors were told that CCTV footage showed a white van parking outside Chatila early on the Sunday of the August Bank Holiday weekend in 2010 and four males dressed in hi-viz jackets got out and went towards the store.

The four were later seen taking containers and a bag out of the premises before the van left.

Early the next day three males arrived in the van and went into Chatila. Nine hours later two males left the premises and loaded bags into the van before it drove off.

The prosecutor said that after the Hatton Garden raid police hid a listening device in Perkins' car and recorded him and Jones discussing the crime.

He said: "They also discussed other matters, including referring (by description, not name) to this burglary and their part in it, including their failure to breach the safe in the basement as a result of using the wrong drill and the smaller amount they were able to steal from the ground-floor display cases."

During the Hatton Garden investigation police searched the premises of Charles Matthews, a long-term friend of Perkins, who runs a scrap metal dealership in east London, the court was told.

They found a black plastic bag hidden behind a removable ceiling tile in Mr Matthews' office, said the prosecutor.

"In that bag were 50 diamonds with a wholesale value of £48,000, two emeralds and a jewel-encrusted bangle. The bangle, a unique item, has been positively identified as being stolen from Chatila in the burglary in 2010."

The prosecutor said there was no allegation that Mr Matthews was involved in the Hatton Garden heist or disposal of the loot in that raid.

The trial continues.