Security guard tells of bank raid shooting

to the chest.

Mr Robert Bourhill said he found Mr David Dunn lying unconscious in a

car park moments after two men had robbed a bank at gunpoint.

During the raid at the Bank of Scotland in High Street, Bonnyrigg,

Midlothian, one robber stuck a gun in Mr Bourhill's back and a second

held a gun at the head of his Securicor colleague, Mr Ronald Allan, the

High Court in Edinburgh was told.

Mr Bourhill was giving evidence at the trial of Mr Robert Smith, 33,

Mr Gerald McQuade, 40, and Mr Paul Bootland, 25, who deny presenting a

loaded gun at Mr Dunn, of Dalhousie Drive, Bonnyrigg, on October 19 last

year, shooting him on the body and murdering him.

They also plead not guilty to assaulting Mr Bourhill and Mr Allan

along with customers and staff at the bank before robbing them of

#185,000.

All three also are charged with attempting to murder PC John Duffy, of

Lothian and Borders Police, Mr John Girdler and Mr Duncan Milliken by

presenting a loaded gun at them and repeatedly discharging the weapon.

Both incidents are alleged to have taken place in Polton Street car

park, Bonnyrigg, on October 19.

Mr Bourhill,36, told the court that he and two colleagues had arrived

at the bank at about 11am. One stayed in the Securicor van while he and

Mr Allan took cash into the bank.

A man wearing a ski mask suddenly jumped between him and Mr Allan and

held a gun at his colleague's head, pointing it just to the right of his

nose. Shown a black revolver in court, Mr Bourhill said it looked like

the gun used in the bank raid.

The man had shouted: ''Get in the bank and don't look.''

Another raider appeared behind him. ''He pushed me in the back. He had

a gun. I didn't see it but I felt it in my back.''

Mr Bourhill said the security men, customers and bank staff were

ordered to lie on the floor while the raiders took cash from the bank's

strong room. The whole incident took about a minute.

He and Mr Allan ran after the robbers, along Bonnyrigg's High Street

and into a vennel leading to Polton Street car park. As he was running

along the vennel, he heard two gunshots.

As he entered the car park, he saw two ''bandits'' being caught.

One was on his knees next to the open door of a silver grey Ford

Granada, being held round the shoulder by a member of the public. The

man had not been one of the two in the bank.

''Another bandit was lying flat on his stomach. I had seen him in the

bank. There was a gentleman holding him down, just lying on top of

him.''

Mr Bourhill said the revolver that he had seen in the bank was lying

about two feet away.

He then heard a woman shouting: ''Get an ambulance, he's been shot.''

She was talking about a man lying next to a car. ''I went over to him.

He was shot in the chest. He was unconscious.''

The guard told the court the next thing he saw was a man carrying a

blue bank bag jumping over a wall at the end of the car park.

Mr Bourhill identified Mr Smith as the man who jumped over the wall,

Mr McQuade as the man lying on his stomach in the car park and Mr

Bootland as the man on his knees.

Cross-examined by Mr Derek Ogg, counsel for Mr Smith, Mr Bourhill

accepted that his identification of people in the bank might be flawed

but he added: ''I'm sure about the identification in the car park. They

weren't masked in the car park. I saw their faces.''

The trial continues.