Robber detained

Saturday 05 February 1994 00:02 GMT
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A man who escaped from Bethlem psychiatric hospital in Kent and carried out an armed bank robbery was ordered to be detained indefinitely in a high-security unit. Earl Lewis told police who arrested him that he could not see why he had done wrong because he had no money and the bank had plenty.

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