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Arrest made in cash machine knife attack
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| The Barclays bank Haxby branch |
POLICE have arrested a man in connection with an attempted knifepoint robbery at a cash machine in a York suburb.
A 27-year-old local man was arrested on Thursday and has been released on police bail while police carry out further inquiries.
Officers from York CID are investigating the incident, which happened at about 7pm outside Barclays bank, in The Village, Haxby, on Easter Monday.
A 58-year-old man was withdrawing money from a cash machine when he was approached by a man wearing a black hooded-top who produced a knife and demanded cash.
The victim did not hand over any money and ran away, but the offender chased him across the road and around two passing cars, which were brought to a standstill near the zebra crossing.
The offender eventually gave up the chase and was last seen walking off in the direction of the working men's club in North Lane.
Detectives are still trying to trace the driver of one of the vehicles, who was forced to stop when the victim was chased across the road during the incident. The car is believed to be a black Ford Focus or Fiesta and police think it was being driven by a man.
The Press told earlier this week how bank customers were warned to be on their guard after the attempted robbery.
A spokeswoman for Barclays bank said the branch was not open at the time of the incident.
She warned customers to take extra care when using the cash machine.
She said: "We would always encourage customers to put their own safety first and to be aware of their surroundings.
"If they think someone is watching them then they should cancel the transaction immediately and report the incident to the branch or the police as quickly as possible.
"Customers should not accept help from well-meaning strangers and never allow themselves to be distracted."
If you think you may be the driver of the black car which was forced to stop, or may have witnessed the incident, phone Det Con Martin Hinchcliffe, of York CID, on 0845 60 60 247. or email martin.hinchliffe@northyorkshire.pnn.police.uk
Alternatively, phone Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
12:03am Saturday 29th March 2008
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CommentPosted by: Bemused on 10:48am Sat 29 Mar 08
[quote]A 27-year-old local man was arrested on Thursday and has been released on police bail while police carry out further inquiries.[/quote]
I was going to say well done until I read this. Bailed, what a joke.
A 27-year-old local man was arrested on Thursday and has been released on police bail while police carry out further inquiries.
I was going to say well done until I read this. Bailed, what a joke.
Posted by: Dick Turpin, Malton on 11:23am Sat 29 Mar 08
Lets Knock the Police on this one. Firstly well done for catching a suspect. Just remember the police have their hands tied with Rules and Regulations and in the last couple of years, yes, the Human Rights legislation.
Lets Knock the Police on this one. Firstly well done for catching a suspect. Just remember the police have their hands tied with Rules and Regulations and in the last couple of years, yes, the Human Rights legislation.
Posted by: Flash, York on 11:39am Sat 29 Mar 08
Scrap the human rights and drag the scum by his neck thru the centre of town with his family behind him. Should never have been bailed, he could have easily injured this man, but well done for catching him and then releasing him.
Scrap the human rights and drag the scum by his neck thru the centre of town with his family behind him. Should never have been bailed, he could have easily injured this man, but well done for catching him and then releasing him.
Posted by: Bemused on 12:52pm Sat 29 Mar 08
[quote]Should never have been bailed, he could have easily injured this man[/quote]
And now whilst on bail could interfere with witnesses, commit further offences, join the long list of those who have murdered whilst on bail. Absconding is only a minor consequence.
Should never have been bailed, he could have easily injured this man
And now whilst on bail could interfere with witnesses, commit further offences, join the long list of those who have murdered whilst on bail. Absconding is only a minor consequence.
Posted by: redp, Huntington on 1:20pm Sat 29 Mar 08
[quote][bold]Flash[/bold] wrote:
Scrap the human rights and drag the scum by his neck thru the centre of town with his family behind him. Should never have been bailed, he could have easily injured this man, but well done for catching him and then releasing him.[/quote] Does the phrase innocent until proven guilty mean nothing?
Flash wrote:
Scrap the human rights and drag the scum by his neck thru the centre of town with his family behind him. Should never have been bailed, he could have easily injured this man, but well done for catching him and then releasing him.
Does the phrase innocent until proven guilty mean nothing?
Posted by: big jim, york on 2:05pm Sat 29 Mar 08
Well done for catching a suspect he should be put in stocks in the village and let the public deal with him. Have his family stood by with their hands tied
Well done for catching a suspect he should be put in stocks in the village and let the public deal with him. Have his family stood by with their hands tied
Posted by: Bemused on 2:08pm Sat 29 Mar 08
[quote]Does the phrase innocent until proven guilty mean nothing?[/quote]
That's defeatist and the very idea an urban myth!
Does the phrase innocent until proven guilty mean nothing?
That's defeatist and the very idea an urban myth!
Posted by: redp, Huntington on 2:17pm Sat 29 Mar 08
[quote][bold]Bemused[/bold] wrote:
[quote]Does the phrase innocent until proven guilty mean nothing?[/quote] That's defeatist and the very idea an urban myth![/quote] Why bother with trials then?
Bemused wrote:
Does the phrase innocent until proven guilty mean nothing?
That's defeatist and the very idea an urban myth!
Why bother with trials then?
Posted by: Bemused on 2:53pm Sat 29 Mar 08
[quote]Why bother with trials then?[/quote]
I've also wondered that.
(2nd attempt to post, website playing up again)
Why bother with trials then?
I've also wondered that.
(2nd attempt to post, website playing up again)
Posted by: redp, Huntington on 3:12pm Sat 29 Mar 08
Derek Bently Hanged 1953 posthumous pardon 1998.
Patrick Nicholls 23 Years for a crime that did not take place.
Stefan Kiszko 16 Years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
If the man arrested is the knife attacker then lock him up. But lets wait until we have the facts and rise above the lynch mob mentality.
Derek Bently Hanged 1953 posthumous pardon 1998.
Patrick Nicholls 23 Years for a crime that did not take place.
Stefan Kiszko 16 Years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
If the man arrested is the knife attacker then lock him up. But lets wait until we have the facts and rise above the lynch mob mentality.
Posted by: Lamplighter on 3:37pm Sat 29 Mar 08
[quote][bold]big jim[/bold] wrote:
Well done for catching a suspect he should be put in stocks in the village and let the public deal with him. Have his family stood by with their hands tied[/quote] [quote]Scrap the human rights and drag the scum by his neck thru the centre of town with his family behind him. [/quote]
What's this obsession with his family? Why should they be punished?
big jim wrote:
Well done for catching a suspect he should be put in stocks in the village and let the public deal with him. Have his family stood by with their hands tied
Scrap the human rights and drag the scum by his neck thru the centre of town with his family behind him.
What's this obsession with his family? Why should they be punished?
Posted by: Bemused on 3:39pm Sat 29 Mar 08
[quote]From The Times
March 26, 2008
Tighten controls on bail in murder and serious offences, ministers told
Frances Gibb, Legal Editor
Tighter curbs on the granting of bail to suspects in murder cases and other crimes is called for in a report being considered by ministers, The Times has learnt.
The report, with the Home and Justice Secretaries, is expected to condemn a “culture of tolerance” within the criminal justice system towards repeated offending by suspects released on bail.
Courts and the police are too ready to grant bail – even when bail conditions have been broken or offending has taken place on bail, it found.
Bail conditions are also regularly flouted with impunity: when a suspect is arrested for a breach of a bail condition, the chances are that he or she will simply be bailed again.
It will call for much closer scrutiny of a suspect’s record and circumstances when bail is sought, and much tighter conditions being attached to bail – including regular checks on whether those conditions are complied with.
The report was drawn up after the stabbing of Richard Whelan, 28, in July 2005 by Anthony Joseph, 23, on the top of a bus – eight hours after Joseph had been released in error from custody.
But since then, the issue of suspects being wrongly released on bail has arisen again with the case of Garry Weddell, the policeman who killed his mother-in-law while on bail awaiting trial accused of strangling his wife, Sandra. He then shot himself.
Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, and Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, with Vera Baird, QC, the Solicitor-General, commissioned an inquiry from the four chief inspectors of the Crown Prosecution Service, court administration, constabulary and from prisons to ensure that “mistakes that may have occurred do not happen again”.
Joseph stabbed Mr Whelan seven times after the latter remonstrated with him for throwing chips at this girlfriend.
It later emerged that Joseph, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter due to diminished responsibility, had been mistakenly released from a young offender’s institution shortly before.
Because of a separate arrest warrant, issued after he failed to attend court in Liverpool, four weeks before the killing, on charges of burglary, he should have been retained in custody. The Government admitted that there had been catastrophic “failings” throughout the entire criminal justice system that had allowed Joseph to kill when he should have been in custody.
The errors are thought to stem from a failure to upload Joseph’s details on to the National Police Computer. [/quote]
From The Times
March 26, 2008
Tighten controls on bail in murder and serious offences, ministers told
Frances Gibb, Legal Editor
Tighter curbs on the granting of bail to suspects in murder cases and other crimes is called for in a report being considered by ministers, The Times has learnt.
The report, with the Home and Justice Secretaries, is expected to condemn a “culture of tolerance” within the criminal justice system towards repeated offending by suspects released on bail.
Courts and the police are too ready to grant bail – even when bail conditions have been broken or offending has taken place on bail, it found.
Bail conditions are also regularly flouted with impunity: when a suspect is arrested for a breach of a bail condition, the chances are that he or she will simply be bailed again.
It will call for much closer scrutiny of a suspect’s record and circumstances when bail is sought, and much tighter conditions being attached to bail – including regular checks on whether those conditions are complied with.
The report was drawn up after the stabbing of Richard Whelan, 28, in July 2005 by Anthony Joseph, 23, on the top of a bus – eight hours after Joseph had been released in error from custody.
But since then, the issue of suspects being wrongly released on bail has arisen again with the case of Garry Weddell, the policeman who killed his mother-in-law while on bail awaiting trial accused of strangling his wife, Sandra. He then shot himself.
Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, and Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, with Vera Baird, QC, the Solicitor-General, commissioned an inquiry from the four chief inspectors of the Crown Prosecution Service, court administration, constabulary and from prisons to ensure that “mistakes that may have occurred do not happen again”.
Joseph stabbed Mr Whelan seven times after the latter remonstrated with him for throwing chips at this girlfriend.
It later emerged that Joseph, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter due to diminished responsibility, had been mistakenly released from a young offender’s institution shortly before.
Because of a separate arrest warrant, issued after he failed to attend court in Liverpool, four weeks before the killing, on charges of burglary, he should have been retained in custody. The Government admitted that there had been catastrophic “failings” throughout the entire criminal justice system that had allowed Joseph to kill when he should have been in custody.
The errors are thought to stem from a failure to upload Joseph’s details on to the National Police Computer.
Posted by: AcombRes, York on 6:46pm Sat 29 Mar 08
Will we ever understand the law? Referring to the story of the guy who recieved 90 days in Jail for showing off his 'Legally' purchased cosh in a York bar. What was the justification then for letting someone off with a 12 month referal order for stabbing his mate? Mondays press.
Returning to this story, bail shouldnt be granted for crimes as serious as armed robbery. If the police have enough evidence to arrest him in the first place, then time and resources should be made available to gather the further evidence needed for a conviction.
How many more murders and other serious crimes do we want to read about, undertaken by those on Bail?
Will we ever understand the law? Referring to the story of the guy who recieved 90 days in Jail for showing off his 'Legally' purchased cosh in a York bar. What was the justification then for letting someone off with a 12 month referal order for stabbing his mate? Mondays press.
Returning to this story, bail shouldnt be granted for crimes as serious as armed robbery. If the police have enough evidence to arrest him in the first place, then time and resources should be made available to gather the further evidence needed for a conviction.
How many more murders and other serious crimes do we want to read about, undertaken by those on Bail?
Posted by: Bemused on 9:15pm Sat 29 Mar 08
[quote]If the police have enough evidence to arrest him in the first place, then time and resources should be made available to gather the further evidence needed for a conviction.[/quote]
I am told this. When the crime is reported they don't do the job correctly by taking all possible witness statements. Then if someone is arrested, they think they have to bail whilst they do what they should have done in the first place, and guess what?
They are so numb, or the training is so poor nowadays, that police forces are having to employ retired police officers to take the bloody statements.
In the meantime the public are put at risk by people who should be in custody.
If the police have enough evidence to arrest him in the first place, then time and resources should be made available to gather the further evidence needed for a conviction.
I am told this. When the crime is reported they don't do the job correctly by taking all possible witness statements. Then if someone is arrested, they think they have to bail whilst they do what they should have done in the first place, and guess what?
They are so numb, or the training is so poor nowadays, that police forces are having to employ retired police officers to take the bloody statements.
In the meantime the public are put at risk by people who should be in custody.
Posted by: outspoken, Earswick on 8:21am Wed 2 Apr 08
The police do all they can, its when it gets to CPS and the court system that it all goes wrong, like that policeman in that child abuse case. The coppers felt there was enough evidence especially as there was six different kids all saying the same thing, as did CPS but get it to court and have a decent barrister and you can get off anything!! He got bail as well and lived round the corner from all the kids involved. The system is wrong.
The police do all they can, its when it gets to CPS and the court system that it all goes wrong, like that policeman in that child abuse case. The coppers felt there was enough evidence especially as there was six different kids all saying the same thing, as did CPS but get it to court and have a decent barrister and you can get off anything!! He got bail as well and lived round the corner from all the kids involved. The system is wrong.
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