Organised crime gang likely suspect for NI raid

Police chiefs have not ruled out the possibility that paramilitaries were behind one of the biggest bank raids in British history.

However, the gang that plundered more than £20m (€28.8m) from the Belfast headquarters of the Northern Bank could be any of the dozens of highly organised criminal gangs which have mushroomed throughout Northern Ireland since the IRA and loyalist ceasefires of ten years ago.