IT has been suggested that notorious police killer Harry Roberts may have been responsible for a bank raid in Darlington in the mid-60s.

Roberts, now 78, was jailed for life for killing three unarmed policemen in an act which shocked the country and was condemned by the judge as "the most heinous crime for a generation or more".

A reader has emailed to say that Roberts,  may have carried out a raid on the Barclays Bank in Albert Road in the town in which a bank clerk was shot and injured.

Roberts was said to have escaped by car through Haughton.

If you were the reader who emailed or you have any information or recollection please call the newsdesk on 01325-505065 or email newsdesk@nne.co.uk