Vacuum cleaner ‘must have been used to clean up’ after raid

WHOEVER carried out the £26.5 million Northern Bank robbery over four years ago also took off with a vacuum cleaner, it emerged at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.

Tom O’Connell, prosecuting, revealed how a blue plastic chair with tubular steel legs as well as a vacuum cleaner were also taken in the now infamous robbery.

Mr O’Connell was at a loss to offer any insight in relation to the chair but did speculate in relation to the vacuum cleaner.