The bank manager whose wife was held hostage in the £26.5 million Northern Bank robbery today said he felt the men holding them “were murderers”.
Giving evidence at Belfast Crown Court for the fifth day, Kevin McMullan described the gang as “very cold” and told the court.
“I don’t know if it’s the right thing to say but I felt these men were murderers, they didn’t care”.
Under cross examination from defence QC Arthur Harvey, Mr McMullan confirmed the gang had told him he would have to be a “fantastic actor” during the robbery and added: “They told me I was going to have to be the boss, do anything it took to make this happen, that I would have to be a fantastic actor and anything they wanted me to do I would have to work around to make sure it happened.”
Twenty-six-year-old bank employee Christopher Owen Ward from Colinmill in Poleglass is in the dock denying the December 20th, 2004 robbery and two counts of falsely imprisoning Mr McMullan and his wife Karyn.