Sinn Féin accuses police chief over bank robbery

Northern Ireland Chief Constable Hugh Orde has not produced one scrap of evidence that the IRA was behind the £26.5m (€37.8m) Northern Bank raid in Belfast, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness claimed today.

With the British government coming under pressure to take sanctions against Sinn Féin following Mr Orde’s comments, the party’s chief negotiator accused the police chief of showing political bias.