Northern Bank trial told how banker was threatened at gunpoint

The assistant manager of the Northern Bank cash centre in Belfast described today how a man posing as a policeman called to his house late at night telling him his sister had been killed before going on to threaten the banker at gunpoint to play a key part in the crime.

Timothy (Ted) Cunningham (aged 60) of Woodbine Lodge, Farran, Co Cork, denies 20 charges of money laundering arising out of the robbery of £26.5m (€28.2bn) sterling from the Northern Bank in Belfast on December 20, 2004. His son, Timothy John Cunningham, aged 33, Church View, Farran, Co Cork, denies four similar charges.