Robbing a bank - hostage legality question

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Ok so I'm lying here in bed and I started thinking about this scenario...

You're in a bank just before you leave 5 heavily armed disguised thugs enter and you become one of many hostages. They muck everything up start a small bin fire which alerts the man in the place across the road and then the back gets surrounded by police.
Some time goes on when you are rewarded the opportunity to leave, perhaps you are a trade for the thugs to get a limo ride out to a jet to take then to Albania.

Now here is my question, say the thugs decide they are going to start shooting hostages unless you personally go back into the bank.

What happens here? Would the police make you go back in, could they even do that? Say they kill a few hostages and then in court say they would have freed everyone if you had gone back in, would victims families then be likely to sue you?

I don't think I would go back in the bank so it would be nice to know where I stood legally should the scenario every crop up.
 
desires said:
What happens here? Would the police make you go back in, could they even do that?
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No
Say they kill a few hostages and then in court say they would have freed everyone if you had gone back in, would victims families then be likely to sue you?
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No

I don't think I would go back in the bank so it would be nice to know where I stood legally should the scenario every crop up.
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LOL wat?
 
Since we're here... What happens if the police arrest you and you don't give them your name/details? (Assuming you aren't reported missing etc...) Do they just hold you indefinitely?
 
steve-h said:
Since we're here... What happens if the police arrest you and you don't give them your name/details? (Assuming you aren't reported missing etc...) Do they just hold you indefinitely?
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They read out the every single name and every single address in the world until you give up.
 
Just call the 0800 number for claims for 'Has a member of your family been killed by a selfish hostage'.
Coming as a TV advert near you soon...
 
desires said:
Ate you sure though? If my wife was killed because one guy was too chicken to go back into the bank I would personally blame him and try to sure him!
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Would you sue the Queen if the hostage takers demanded her and she didn't turn up?

Put another way if you were near a hostage situation and a police man came over and informed you that the hostage takers had noticed you through the window and threatened to kill their hostages unless you also became a hostage would you do it? Like hell you would. You know they will be just as likely to kill you too once a hostage.
 
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