Czech bank robber hands himself in 'after paying back his friends'

A Czech bank robber handed himself in a day after stealing thousands of pounds saying he had taken the money "to pay back good friends", leaving police dumbfounded. The robber had first called the police just 10 minutes after purloining the equivalent of £6,000 from a Prague bank to tell them he would appear at a police station the next day, and he was true to his word. Tomas Hulan, from the Prague police, said that even the city's most experienced detectives had never experienced a case like this.

"He came in confessed to the robbery, and explained he had to do it because of financial problems," said Mr Hulan. "Apparently some 'bad people' had stolen his money but some people had helped him out and he wanted 'pay the good friends back'." The robber, who has not been named for legal reasons, went to the bank in the Radotin district of Prague and waited patiently in a queue. When it was his turn he handed a note to the cashier telling her he had a gun and to hand over the money. But his friends who received the cash will have to return it, and could even face a police investigation if they accepted the money knowing its criminal origins.

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