THE assistant manager of the Northern Bank cash centre in Belfast was threatened at gunpoint and forced to play a key part in the robbery of £26.5million on December 20, 2004.

A Cork financial adviser was facing up to 14 years in jail tonight for laundering cash from the £26.5m (€28.4m) Northern Bank robbery.

A Cork financial adviser who was found guilty today of laundering cash from the £26.5m (€28.5m) Northern Bank robbery was remanded in custody pending sentencing on April 24.

The jury in the trial of a financial adviser accused of laundering money from the notorious Northern Bank robbery will enter its second day of deliberations today.

The jurors in the trial of a financial adviser accused of laundering money from the £26.5m (€28.2m) Northern Bank robbery were tonight told to use their common sense when deciding the case.

The jury in the trial of a financial adviser accused of laundering money from the £26.5m Northern Bank robbery will retire to consider its verdict today.

The assistant manager of the Northern Bank cash centre in Belfast described today how a man posing as a policeman called to his house late at night telling him his sister had been killed before going on to threaten the banker at gunpoint to play a key part in the crime.

THE man cleared of one of Britain’s largest bank robberies may launch legal action after branding his failed prosecution a farce.

The trial of the man accused of the £26.5m (€33.9m) Northern Bank robbery was adjourned today.

Those behind the £26.5m (€33.5m) Northern Bank robbery were prepared to use the tactics of terrorism against innocent people whether they came from an organisation, a criminal gang or both, the judge hearing the case in Belfast said today.

"Robbing a bank is not like the movies, you do not need dynamite", the judge hearing the £26.5m (€33m) Northern Bank robbery trial said today.

The banker seized and forced to enable the £26.5m (€33.3m) Northern Bank robbery while his wife was held hostage clashed with defence counsel today at the trial of the colleague charged with the robbery.

A bank official told the Northern Bank trial today that he sent staff home early so he and a colleague could empty the vault.

THE bank official charged with the £26.5 million (€33m) Northern Bank robbery made last-minute changes to the rota of staff who had a key to the vault to put himself on duty that day.

The bank official charged with the £26.5m (€33m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast made last minute changes to the rota of staff who had a key to the vault to put himself on duty on the day, the opening day of his trial was told today.

The trial of a man accused of the £26.5 (€33m) Northern Bank robbery is due to begin in Belfast Crown Court today.

The trial of a man accused of the £26.5m (€18m) Northern Bank robbery which was due to begin in Belfast today was adjourned until tomorrow.

The trial of a man accused of the £26.5m (€32.8m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast will start today.

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POLICE chiefs in the North were last night accused of running a flawed investigation into the £26.5 million (€39m) Northern Bank robbery after charges were dropped against two suspects.

Police chiefs were tonight accused of running a botched investigation into the £26.5m (€392.2m) Northern Bank robbery after charges were dropped against two suspects.

AN employee accused of the £26.5 million (€39.15m) Northern Bank robbery allegedly manipulated a work rota so the raid could be carried out, a court heard yesterday.

TWO young bank staff were being questioned last night about the £26.5 million (€38.7m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast.

BUILDER Dominic McEvoy was charged with the £26.5 million (€39.2m) Northern Bank heist in Belfast after his DNA was allegedly found on a hat at the home of hostages, a magistrates’ court heard yesterday.

A MAN was last night charged with the Northern Bank robbery in Belfast. The 23-year-old man was also accused of taking a husband and wife hostage and possession of a gun or imitation firearm during the heist last December.

A man was tonight charged with the £26.5m (€39.2m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast.

MANY bank staff held up in armed raids across Ireland are too terrified to take part in identity parades, union officials claimed yesterday.

Many bank staff held up in armed raids across Ireland are too terrified to take part in identity parades, union officials claimed today.

A pensioner was on security duty at the time the Northern Bank was robbed of £26.5m (€38m), it emerged tonight.

A TERRIFIED woman abducted by the Northern Bank robbers was nearly knocked down as she staggered to freedom after she was dumped on a country road and her car burned.

Detectives hunting the gang who stole £25.6m (€38m) from the Northern Bank have established up to 1,000 lines of inquiry, they revealed today.

The IRA gang blamed for the £26.5m (€38m) Northern Bank robbery threatened to kill all their hostages, a victim revealed today.

The Northern Bank rejected claims today that substantially more than £26.5m (€37.8m) was stolen from its Belfast HQ.

Detectives investigating the £22m (€31m) bank raid in the North have carried out searches of commercial premises in west Belfast, it was confirmed today.

THE owners of two homes taken over by the gang behind last week’s £22 million bank raid in the North hope to return today, following a police forensic examination.

The owners of two homes taken over by the gang behind last week’s £22m (€31.1m) bank raid in Northern Ireland hope to return today, following a police forensic examination.

POLICE yesterday ended forensic examinations in the two homes taken over by the gang behind last week’s £22 million (€30 million) bank heist in the North.

Police in the North today ended forensic examinations in the two homes taken over by the gang behind last week’s £22m (€31.3m) bank heist in Belfast.

Detectives were today probing possible paramilitary links to the gang behind the £22m (€31.4m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast.

THE gang behind the £22 million (€32m) Northern Bank heist may be forced to dump more than half the cash, it emerged last night.