A man who robbed the Keighley branch of the Skipton Building Society at gunpoint last February was jailed for eight and a half years on Friday, after pleading guilty to all five charges.

Glyn Mosey, 56, a former soldier in the Rhodesian army, was living near Granada, in Spain, but was arrested after his daughter recognised security photographs on TV.

Mosey, who appeared at Leeds Crown Court, netted £4,260 when he robbed four building society branches over a period of four months last year.

The Keighley raid, where he managed to escape with £500, was Mosey's first robbery and was followed with another in Beeston, an unsuccessful attack in Guiseley and a final raid in Pontefract.

Mosey was living in Spain with his first wife and had returned to England twice to try and reconcile differences with his daughter, who lived in Knottingley, near Pontefract. He had made the trips after he had been told he might be suffering from cancer.

His anxious state of mind was given as a reason for the robberies.

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