August, 1984
Police officers in South Yorkshire are seeking a man who carried out a bizarre bank hold-up.
The man walked into the National Westminster Branch in Bawtry Road, Wickersley, after making an appointment with the sub-manager to discuss opening an account for an electronics business.But as he sat down in front of the manager's desk he produced a revolver, pointed it at the manager, but said nothing and made no demands.After a few seconds he shrugged his shoulders, put his gun away, took off his false moustache, and left saying: "I'm off then".
The sub-manager, Mr John Nicholson, said yesterday: "It's not every day you sit a few feet away from a gun being pointed at you".
"The whole incident lasted only three or four minutes. I shook hands with him as he came in and said something about it being hot: but he just mumbled a reply and never said another word".