FOOTAGE of the moment a gang robbed a bank security guard of £25,000 has been released by Kirklees police.

The film shows one of the raiders who struck at the HSBC branch in Market Place, Dewsbury.

The raid happened in January and police revealed the robbers getaway car had been stolen days earlier in Bradley, Huddersfield.

It was on January 6 at 2.15pm that the security guard was robbed and cash stolen from him.

The guard was delivering cash inside the bank when a man approached him from behind and made a grab for a bag of money being removed from a cashbox.

The suspect and two other male accomplices drove off at speed from Bond Street in Dewsbury town centre in a silver coloured car, believed to have been a VW Passat.

They made a U-turn on Dewsbury ring road in front of Dewsbury railway station where they collided with a red car, causing minor damage, before making off.

The VW Passat was later found abandoned in the Meadow Lane area of Dewsbury. It was stolen from Tudor Croft, Bradley, on December 30, 2010.

Det Con Richard Proud of Dewsbury CID said: "The CCTV we are releasing shows that this robbery took place in a busy bank at a busy time of the day.

"It shows how the suspect went into the bank before the security guard, who he then attacks before running off with the stolen money.

"While the guard wasn't injured, this was a serious crime and we hope that the footage jogs somebody's memory or compels someone with information to come forward."