Bizarre Bank Heist: Poisonous Coercion

In a bizarre case that baffled authorities, bank manager John Thomas Forrester, aged 50 at the time, found himself at the center of a peculiar bank robbery in April 2009. Forrester, a seasoned manager at the Bank of Queensland, claimed that Irish revolutionaries had carjacked him en route to work, injected him with a poison, and forced him to rob his own branch. According to his account, the assailants threatened that he would die without an antidote unless he followed their instructions.

Forrester followed their demands and stole $40,000 from the bank. He even left the cash in a backpack, as instructed. However, no further communication came from the supposed criminals. Authorities launched an investigation, which included a blood test to determine if Forrester had indeed been poisoned, but the results were inconclusive. Despite injection marks on the back of his neck and other circumstantial evidence, the police could not definitively prove the poison story. After a lengthy legal battle, John Thomas Forrester was eventually found not guilty. He was allowed to return to his job at the bank, and the mystery of the bizarre bank heist remains unsolved to this day, with the stolen money never recovered.