Thieves stole almost £1.5 million worth of vintage wine in a daring heist on a warehouse that supplies the Queen, before opening champagne inside the building to toast their success.

The Berry Bros & Rudd warehouse in Basingstoke, Hampshire, was burgled on 26 April with sources telling the Daily Mail that it had to be an “inside job” as thieves evaded lasers and multiple cameras to make off with bottles worth £1,000 each.

A subsequent investigation revealed how the thieves carefully manoeuvred CCTV cameras away from the action, before drilling a 4ft by 4ft hole into the wall and evading motion detection alarms once inside the building.

The group headed straight to the luxury section of the warehouse, forming a chain and passing hundreds of thousands pounds worth of French wine – including bottles of Chateau Latour and Chateau Mouton-Rothschild – between them and out of the building.