'Nothing unusual about men leaving money in churchyard,' court hears

The Cork man accused of money-laundering said today there was nothing unusual about two men arriving in a churchyard across the road from his house with £800,000 in Northern sterling and then driving off without getting a receipt.

Ted Cunningham, 60, of Woodbine Lodge, Farran, Co Cork, who denies 20 charges of money-laundering – in a case that arises out of the investigation of the robbery of £26.5m sterling from the Northern Bank in Belfast on December 20, 2004 – said under cross-examination he was used to getting big sums of money from people as part of his work.