Police tell of wife's ordeal as CCTV footage reveals bank heist details

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.

Police tell of wife's ordeal as CCTV footage reveals bank heist details
Thu, 20 Jan, 2005 - 00:00
Alan Erwin

New CCTV footage from inside the Northern's Belfast cash distribution centre, released yesterday, showed a bank employee, whose family was held hostage, leaving with a sports bag filled with nearly £1.5 million cash which he was told to hand over to one of the raiders.

Detectives also revealed 1,000 lines of inquiry are being examined, some with the aid of international experts.

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