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15/11/2010
Co Down Men Face Irish ATM Raid Charges
Two men from Northern Ireland have been charged with taking part in a ram-raid on a bank ATM in Co Kerry yesterday.
The men have been before a special district court sitting in Killorglin, Co Kerry charged in connection with yesterday's attempted robbery at Castleisland.
Thomas Wilson, 29, from Sea Patrick Villas, Banbridge in Co Down, and 24-year-old Christopher Murney, of Chapel Hill Road, Mayobridge, Co Down, were charged with criminal damage to the AIB bank in Castleisland and theft of an ATM. Both men were remanded in custody until Tuesday.
Earlier, a 45-year-old man from Co Fermanagh who was also arrested in connection with the attempted raid was released from garda custody. A file in his case will be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The Irish police foiled the raid, which occurred at around 5am when they found a number of men attempting to load the ATM, which had been pulled from the wall of the bank, on to a flatbed truck using a digger.
The facade of the bank was extensively damaged in what was the 20th such incident in the country over the last two years.
Two men fled the scene in a van, which attempted to ram the garda patrol car. They abandoned it around 10km outside Castleisland and fled onto bogland near a farm, but were captured by gardai after a violent struggle.
(DW/BMcC)
The men have been before a special district court sitting in Killorglin, Co Kerry charged in connection with yesterday's attempted robbery at Castleisland.
Thomas Wilson, 29, from Sea Patrick Villas, Banbridge in Co Down, and 24-year-old Christopher Murney, of Chapel Hill Road, Mayobridge, Co Down, were charged with criminal damage to the AIB bank in Castleisland and theft of an ATM. Both men were remanded in custody until Tuesday.
Earlier, a 45-year-old man from Co Fermanagh who was also arrested in connection with the attempted raid was released from garda custody. A file in his case will be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The Irish police foiled the raid, which occurred at around 5am when they found a number of men attempting to load the ATM, which had been pulled from the wall of the bank, on to a flatbed truck using a digger.
The facade of the bank was extensively damaged in what was the 20th such incident in the country over the last two years.
Two men fled the scene in a van, which attempted to ram the garda patrol car. They abandoned it around 10km outside Castleisland and fled onto bogland near a farm, but were captured by gardai after a violent struggle.
(DW/BMcC)
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