Customers foil armed bank raid

Heroic bank customers punched and held down a dangerous robber as they foiled a dramatic daylight raid. This exclusive video shows heroic bank customers punching and holding down a dangerous robber as they foiled a dramatic daylight raid. Please note there is no sound Pensioners ordered stunned career criminal John Hickinbottom "Get out, we don't want this" before other customers landed punches and sat on him during a failed bid to hold up Lloyds TSB in Oldbury. Masked Hickinbottom, aged 43, and a hooded accomplice who appeared to be armed, had stormed into the bank. In dramatic footage captured on the bank's CCTV cameras, Hickinbottom orders staff to "Give me all the money" and warns customers to stand back. Footage of the second robber, who is still at large, appears to show him pointing at something in his pocket. Customer Mark Piddington saw what was happening and lashed out, striking the robber in the head, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard yesterday. Hickinbottom was today beginning an indefinite prison sentence lasting at least three years. The raid happened on November 26 last year at around 2.15pm and Hickinbottom, of Blakeley Hall Road, Oldbury, admitted attempted robbery and being carried in a stolen car. Read the full story in today's Express & Star