June 2, 2006
Mobile photos helped capture bank robbers
Members of the public standing by during a bank robbery - which took place in Newport City (UK) last April - snapped pictures with their cameraphones, ulitmately providing vital clues for the police.
At Cardiff Crown Court this week, the four men involved were found guilty of the armed robbery and for shooting a guard in the leg.
"Detective Chief Inspector Mark Sutton said: "We had members of the public who were stood there at the time the robbery was taking place taking photographs with cameras. They were taking photographs with mobile phones, they were taking registration numbers, we had CCTV footage so it was a tremendous response right from the beginning.
From two different articles in the BBC, Guilty verdicts in armed robbery and Mobile photos helped capture gang
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