Bank raid kidnap victims to return home

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.

Houses belonging to 24-year-old Chris Ward, in the Poleglass area of west Belfast, and Kevin McMullan, in Loughinisland, Co Down, have been preserved as crime scenes since last Monday when details of the raid on the vaults of the Northern Bank in Belfast city centre first emerged.