conviction and sentence.

Last week Dillas, 32, started an 18-year sentence for his part in the $37,500 raid on the Bank of Bermuda in Somerset in 1997, following a 30-year term handed down to his co-accused Rupert Elroy Archibald. Dillas' lawyer Victoria Pearman yesterday said an appeal against her client's conviction and sentence was "likely''.

It follows the news that Archibald, who always denied his part in the raid, was to lodge an appeal against his conviction and sentence. Dillas received two concurrent eight year sentences for charges of armed robbery and ten years for using a firearm.

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