A convicted armed robber who held up a bank a decade after he carried out a similar raid has been jailed for 11 years.

Undeterred by a 10-year sentence he received in 1988, Paul Gray, 39, pointed a revolver at a cashier at Lloyds in Nelson Road, Greenwich, and ordered her to fill his bag with money.

The terrified woman complied but placed inside the bag a dye-pack, designed to explode and cover the cash.

Gray was caught on video as he made off with £2,000 and climbed into a stolen car.

The car was later found by police, with the cash bag ruined by the dye and Gray's fingerprints on a piece of silver foil in the glove compartment.

Following his arrest Gray claimed he was not guilty of any offences. But an Old Bailey jury convicted him of robbery and having a firearm or imitation firearm with intent to commit an offence.

After the verdict, the jury was told Gray was jailed for 10 years in 1989 for a raid at the Midland Bank in Bermondsey. Armed with a Beretta pistol he stole £4,000 in cash.

Passing sentence, Judge Ian Davies said it was not known whether Gray's gun was real or not but bank staff were very frightened. He added: "You must have known the very serious view the court would take if you committed an armed robbery again."

He sentenced Gray, of Walworth, to eight years for robbery and three years, to run consecutively, for the firearm offence.

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