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  • Genius Robber Heard 'Voices'(Immigrant Goes To Maine Acquires DMV License, Buys Gun, Robs Bank)

    03/07/2008 3:37:38 PM PST · by fight_truth_decay · 12 replies · 755+ views
    Independent ^ | February 22 2008 | By Shane Hickey
    Trinity graduate has family history of schizophrenia "Voices" in the head of an award-winning Irish computer science graduate told him to rob a bank, it was claimed yesterday. Niall Clarke (27) was suffering from schizophrenia when he carried out a botched bank raid in Maine, a mental illness also suffered by his grandmother, said his solicitor yesterday. The brilliant Trinity graduate from Kilrush in Co Clare was sentenced to almost 10 years in prison earlier this week after the 2006 robbery of the Bangor Bank of America. "He was hearing voices that the bank had to be robbed. He said...