Blocked car bank robber jailed

A bank robber who was caught because his getaway car was blocked in during a raid has been jailed for life.

Roy Swinscoe, 35, broke into a Lloyds TSB bank in Banbury, Oxfordshire, overnight and then forced staff at gunpoint to open the safe.

But Swinscoe, from Nottingham, whom police had once dubbed one of Britain's "most wanted", then took more than 20 minutes to get office workers to move their cars so he could escape in the raid last August.

At Oxford Crown Court Judge Anthony King ordered that Swinscoe serve a mandatory life sentence to be eligible for parole no earlier than after serving seven years.