Gardaí say they have good CCTV footage of the man who held up a bank in Cork city armed with a knife on Thursday.
They have also said the culprit in the Ulster Bank robbery in Blackpool will struggle to wash off the security dye which discharged from the cash bag and appealed for any neighbours or friends who notice someone covered in the distinctive purple ink to contact Mayfield garda station.
“Someone out there has a lot of dye on their hands. They are probably lying low right now because of that. But someone who knows him will have seen it ,” a senior garda said.
He said that while the garda probe is still in its early stages, investigators were happy that they were making progress. He said they were piecing together CCTV but had good footage of the culprit. He also said they would be harvesting CCTV from other buildings in the area to track movements after the robbery.
The culprit entered the bank just after 11am and asked the teller to exchange a €5 note for coins before brandishing a knife and grabbing notes as well as two bags of cash one of which exploded a short time later and sprayed out the dye.
He has is 1.85 metres, wore a blue top which is now stained with dye, as well as a grey tracksuit pants and a grey Adidas baseball cap.
Officers are also examining whether there is a link between the bank raid and the robbery of cash from Halfords in Mahon Retail park on Wednesday as the modus-operandi in the two incidents was very similar.
Meanwhile, a housemate of a bank worker who was in the bank when the robber struck, told Red FM’s Neil Prendeville Show she was shocked but “wasn’t really traumatised”.
Anyone with information about the robbery can contact Mayfield Garda Station on 021 455 8510.
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