Man pleads guilty of cross-dressing bank raid

A man dressed in a dress and wig, on trial arising out of a €700,000 armed bank robbery during which two female staff members were held captive, dramatically changed his plea on day-two of the hearing at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Danny Hamill (aged 49), of Clanmaurice Road, Donnycarney pleaded guilty to robbing €700,338, false imprisonment of a bank official and possession of a 9mm semi-automatic pistol at the Allied Irish Bank branch in Crumlin, on June 3, 2006.