TWO men have been arrested on suspicion of taking part in the same 1985 Derbyshire bank raid which led to a North Yorkshire man being jailed last year.

Twenty-five years after the robbery, cold-case detectives traced Alan Murray, now 58, of Woodmans House, Pilmoor, near Easingwold, by putting fingerprints through the national database, which did not exist at the time of the raid.

He was jailed for ten years in December 2010 for his role in stealing £7,500 – about £17,000 in today’s money – from Lloyds Bank in Cromford, in September 1985.

Last month a 63-year-old man was arrested and bailed, and last Thursday Derbyshire Police arrested another man – a 66-year-old from Brinsley, in Nottinghamshire.

He has been released on bail pending further inquiries. A Derbyshire Police spokesman said: “During the robbery, security guard John Power, 61 at the time, was hit in the face with a shotgun.

“He suffered facial injuries and was taken to hospital for treatment.

“The offenders left the scene in a Ford Escort, which was later found abandoned in Market Street in Belper.”

At his court case last year Murray pleaded guilty to the robbery and to having an imitation firearm. Judge Andrew Hamilton said his conviction should be a “wake-up call” for criminals at large. He said: “To those people who are sitting comfortably in their homes who don’t realise that as these cold cases are now reviewed there may be a policeman knocking on their door.”

Following Murray’s conviction, investigating officers publicly appealed for information about the other two men involved in the robbery.