Brenden James Abbott, Australia’s most notorious bank robber and prison escapee, has been given a glimmer of hope as South Australian police have withdrawn a warrant for his arrest in connection with a holdup of Glenelg bank in 1994.

6PR Breakfast host Karl Langdon shared his terrifying close call with ‘the postcard bandit’ in 1987 as a young bank teller at the Commonwealth Bank in Belmont.

“When I saw a bloke with a balaclava and jeans with a pistol in one hand and a sawed-off double barrel shotgun in the other that he put on the side of my head, in the end I did not know it was him,” Karl said.

Press PLAY to hear Karl’s full experience with Brenden James Abbott

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