In 2008, he was jailed for five years for breaking into William Hill bookmaker's in Anlaby Road, west Hull.
He had gone through a derelict building next to the shop, cut the alarm wires and dropped through a ceiling into the shop. He then removed the safe, which contained about £4,500.
Police arrested him as he tried to flee the scene.
Forensic examination of Sivewright's clothes revealed debris from the ceiling tiles and from the safe.
The court heard the technique used to steal the safe bore a "striking similarity" to a robbery from Christian Salvesen Foods in Grimsby in 1989. On that occasion, Sivewright and his associates had hidden in the false ceiling of the building, waiting for a large wage delivery in the weeks before Christmas.
They then dropped through the ceiling, threatened the wage clerks with firearms, tied them up and stole about £60,000.
Sivewright was sentenced to 18 years, later reduced to 15 years on appeal.
He was later jailed for nine years after pleading guilty to possessing a Colt .45 pistol and 39 rounds of "full metal jacket" ammunition.
Sivewright, then of Greek Street, Hull, was seen by police to dig up a gun two days before Christmas in 1999 from the Humber Bridge Country Park.
Sivewright was once convicted of plotting to murder former Humberside Detective Inspector Geoff Ogden by stealing a police uniform, flagging his car down and then shooting him. He had blamed the senior detective for pursuing him for ten years.
• Video: Watch Sivewright stealing from council safe
