Man held after siege at bank

A MAN was arrested yesterday after a three-hour siege at a London bank.

A suspected gunman took a number of hostages in the incident at Barclays Bank in Church Road, Ashford, west London.

Some three hours after the incident began, a man in his 30s was arrested, Surrey Police said.

It’s understood that up to 16 hostages had been released.

Witnesses said one man who came out of the bank had a gun put in his face by police and there was speculation that this was the man who was arrested.

It was understood that the raider forced some of the hostages to put on white boiler suits and also that he asked them to spray paint to blacken the windows on the inside, so people could not see in.