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TEENAGER SHOT BY POLICE ADMITS ROBBING BANK

261721 JAN 10

By Sherna Noah, PA News

A 19-year-old who was shot by a police marksman after a bank raid today 
pleaded guilty to robbery.

Cemalettin Ortancil was shot in the right shoulder following the raid at the 
HSBC bank, just 150 yards from a police station, in Newbridge, south Wales.

Police recovered £9,000 near the scene, stashed in a holdall, and the Police 
Complaints Authority (PCA) supervised an investigation into the incident.

Today at Newport Crown Court, Ortancil, of Blackshaw Road, Wimbledon, 
south-west London, pleaded guilty to robbery, having a firearm with intent to 
commit robbery and making use of a firearm with intent to prevent arrest on 
October 26, 2000.

At the time of the incident, witnesses reported a man, wearing a balaclava 
and dressed in a black boiler suit, threatening a clerk with a gun before 
fleeing on foot with a sum of money down a side street.

Police tracked the man from a helicopter and several gunshots were believed 
to have been exchanged in Newbridge High Street.

The PCA investigation, carried out by South Wales Police, was completed last 
month. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is due to report on the case.

A PCA spokesman said: "The CPS are due to report back to us. We will then 
look at whether officers followed procedures or not and what, if any, lessons 
can be learnt."



Kenneth Pantling


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