Crooks caught on CCTV use tractor to rip ATM out of bank wall

Police are on the hunt for thieves who used a tractor to drag a cash machine out of the wall of a NatWest branch in Bingham, Nottinghamshire and drove off with it.

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Crooks caught on CCTV use tractor to rip ATM out of bank wall

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Police have released CCTV footage showing offenders using the stolen tractor to crash into the NatWest branch wall and take the ATM in the early hours of Monday morning.



The machine, along with a Land Rover Defender and a large trailer, both stolen, was later found at an abandoned farm building in Kegworth, Leicestershire. The ATM had been broken into and "a quantity of money" stolen.

The culprits may have driven the Land Rover and attached trailer through a number of rural villages between Bingham and Kegworth, say police.

Sergeant Steve Wragg, Beeston CID, says: "It would have been an unusual sight to see the vehicle towing such a large trailer through quiet, rural villages in the early hours of the morning. Anyone who saw the vehicle may hold vital information which could help us find the people responsible for this incident."

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Comments: (2)

A Finextra member 

Oh, how this takes me back!

Back in 1992, I was a support engineer working for a bank when an ATM suffered a similar fate. The bank's own staff (in Kent, SE England) placed a great support call to us saying "extra long power lead required!" After the ATM was found in a farmer's field.

I've still got the actual support call sheet. Who says banks don't have a sense of humour!

Has no one picked up on the fact that Kegworth is where NatWest's computer operations and ATM HQ is based? It was probably driven past the building and none of the techies spotted it.

Pity it wasn't Lloyds TSB. One ATM for the journey...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Finextra member 

Unfortunately the quality (and distance camera to site of crime) of the video again proofs that potential crooks are facing limited risk of recognition.

How about ink-staining?

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