Northumbria Police said the robbers left the area in a second vehicle, believed to be a grey coloured BMW 320 estate bearing the false registration NE08VWG.

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The van, which had false registration plates and a green band around the edge, sped off along Grange Cross Lane and was found burnt-out a short while later in Carr Lane, Moreton.

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The van, which had false registration plates with the number KP52 XGD, was seen to speed off along Grange Cross Lane after the shooting and was later found burned out in Carr Lane, Moreton.

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The number plates were then changed to false ones with the registration number RJZ 6968.

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The car had the registration number TIW 8819 when it travelled to Bangor on Thursday night but the number plates were changed to false ones, OJZ 4157, on the return journey to Belfast on Friday morning.

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