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Worker to stand trial over Northern Bank raid

Belfast Magistrates Court - Man to stand trial over bank robbery
Belfast Magistrates Court - Man to stand trial over bank robbery

A Northern Bank employee has been sent for trial accused of the £26.5m robbery at the bank's headquarters in Belfast nearly three years ago.

No date for the trial of 25-year-old Christopher Ward from west Belfast has been set, but its expected to take place early next year.

Ward is the only person charged in connection with the robbery that took place a few days before Christmas in 2004.

His solicitor told Belfast Magistrates Court that his client wished to reiterate his innocence and 'that he is a victim of this crime'.

The accused was allowed out on continuing bail but barred from entering premsies owned by the Northern Bank.