FOUR men were today convicted of being part of a robbery gang that targeted the HSBC bank in Summertown, Oxford.

Terrence Wallace, 26, Adrian Johnson, 28, Leroy Wilkinson, 29, and Victor Iniodu, 34, all from south London, denied conspiracy to rob.

However, they were convicted of plotting and carrying out 18 raids between April 2006 and September 2007 — including a raid on HSBC in Banbury Road, Summertown, in November 2006, when a man stole a cash box from a security guard.

The spree only ended when the mastermind and his accomplice were shot dead by police in Hampshire.

Raids also took place in Oxford, Swindon, Bristol, Bath, Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Reading, Ipswich and Gloucestershire.

But the 18-month spree was brought to a dramatic end when a police marksman shot ringleader Mark Nunes and accomplice Andrew Markland dead during a foiled raid in Chandlers Ford.

During the month-long trial at Kingston Crown Court, the jury heard that 35-year-old Nunes' "luck ran out" when he was gunned down as he held a pistol to the head of a security guard close to a branch of HSBC in the village.

Markland, 36, was also shot dead when he tried to pick up the weapon.