POLICE have eventually remembered three days later that a bank robbery DID happen in Minehead.

Avon and Somerset Constabulary initially said it had no knowledge of a break-in at the town’s only ‘big four’ bank, NatWest, in The Parade.

A spokesperson said the force did not have a log of the incident and the local neighbourhood policing team knew nothing of it.

This, despite the bank being closed on Monday (July 6) with its damaged front door boarded up and three police cars and a forensics teams seen to be present.

Then, on Thursday as the Free Press was going to print, a spokesperson finally confessed the robbery had happened.

The spokesperson said a ‘report of a burglary at a bank in High Street’ (not,‘The Parade’) was received at 1.55 pm on Monday.

They said: “Officers attended and found the door to the building had been damaged.

“CCTV inquiries have been conducted and our investigation continues.

“Anybody with information that could assist us is asked to contact us online or on 101 quoting reference number 5226186295.”

By then, inquiries by the Free Press had already established the NatWest branch had been broken into during the early hours of Monday.

However, the bank has refused to say what, if anything, was taken.