THE saturation media coverage of the Northern Bank robbery in December 2004, in the Republic of Ireland was described yesterday in the trial of a father and son accused of laundering more than £3 million from that robbery.

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.

A FATHER and son admitted under interrogation that they knew that millions of Northern Ireland sterling notes in their possession came from the 2004 Northern Bank robbery, the prosecution has claimed.

A father and son admitted under interrogation that they knew that millions of sterling notes in their possession came from the 2004 Northern Bank robbery, the prosecution claimed today as the men went on trial where they denied all the money laundering charges against them.

A Cork financial advisor who is accused of money-laundering - arising out of the investigation of the 2004 Northern Bank robbery - was back at Cork District Court today and remanded on continuing bail to appear again in a month’s time.