A bank manager provided inside information and sketched robbery plans for her boyfriend to steal almost 400,000 pounds from the branch where she used to work, a court heard.

Rachael Shariar-Namini, 23, allegedly drew up the plans during a night out at a hotel - enabling William Wormald and his accomplices to carry out the crime.

Jonathan Sharp, prosecuting at Leeds Crown Court, West Yorks., on Tuesday, told how Wormald, 26, and Darren Ashcroft, 38, climbed into a toilet through the first floor roof before carrying out the robbery at the NatWest branch in Hunslet, Leeds, on March 9.

The masked men, one with a crowbar, took 371,691 pounds in cash which was in temporary storage awaiting collection by a Securicor van.

The jury heard that days later Wormald, who worked in a builders yard, and Shariar-Namini went shopping in York where he used cash to pay for goods.

Shariar-Namini, of Leeds, denies robbery. The jury was told how Wormald, Ashcroft and David Cowie, 32, who provided a getaway car, have admitted robbery.

The trial continues.