A MAN who robbed a Summertown bank in 2007 has been jailed for 17 years.

Jonathon Whitton, of Drenon Square in Uxbridge, pleaded guilty to five counts of robbery and three counts of possession of a firearm and ammunition.

The 38-year-old had been involved in a string of robberies in the Thames Valley area and London between 2007 and 2013, but was arrested on December 17 2013.

He was sentenced at Kingston Crown Court last Friday, but police only released the information today.

Whitton’s capture came in December 2013 after a joint investigation by Thames Valley Police and the Metropolitan Police Service’s Flying Squad.

During a search of a property linked to him in Priory Road, Oxford, police found three firearms and ammunition in a cupboard.

Police said Whitton was found to be responsible for the 2007 dawn robbery of a Abbey National bank in Summertown, by four armed and masked men.

At the time thousands of pounds were stolen and a security guard was hit over the head with the handle of a gun. He sustained minor injuries.

After seizing the bank cash, the robbers fled in a get-away van that was later abandoned in Mayfield Road.

Thames Valley Police said yesterday that Whitton was also involved in an attempted robbery and a robbery in Streatham last year, as well as the theft of a safe box containing £30,000 of personal items in abank in Hayes, Middlesex, and a robbery of £180,000 from a bank in Stokenchurch.

He was sentenced alongside two other men, Hugh Atkins, 32, of Burtwell Lane in London, and Leon Simpson, 40, of Lambert Road in London, who had joined him in some of the offences.

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