Courts seize €150,000 assets from armed robber

A convicted armed robber today had over £100,000 (€144,100) assets seized by the UK's Assets Recovery Agency after the first court case of its kind in Northern Ireland.

The action was taken after the robber refused to cut a deal with the agency - which would have allowed him to keep a small amount of his criminal assets – and decided to fight a winner-take-all case in the courts.