Burberry Bandit’s grandma says of serial financial institution robber with 34 priors: ‘I am gonna ring his neck’
The notorious NYC financial institution robber referred to as the “Burberry Bandit” is a product of the failures of the town’s psychological well being system – and his personal useless love of dapper duds, his kin instructed The Submit.
Cornell Neilly landed on Web page 1 of The Submit final Sunday after being busted Sept. 15 whereas on parole for allegedly knocking over 5 banks between Aug. 16 and Sept. 13 — and getting sprung by a lefty choose regardless of his 29 prior financial institution theft arrests.
Family instructed The Submit the 35-year-old’s appreciation of the finer issues might have launched his lifetime of crime.
“They used to name him that due to the best way he used to decorate,” mentioned an aunt from the Higher West Aspect condo the place Neilly, 35, was busted Sept. 15. “He was sharp. He did look good,” mentioned the aunt, who requested to stay nameless.
Neilly grew to become tabloid well-known in 2012 when he was captured on surveillance footage sporting Burberry’s iconic tartan throughout a theft at a Financial institution of America in Midtown.
He may additionally have returned to allegedly robbing banks as a result of he’s bipolar and is off his meds, claimed an adoptive grandmom who additionally lives within the condo.
“I actually assume he wants medication once more,” mentioned the lady, who additionally requested anonymity.
There’s no report that exhibits if Neilly ever sought or obtained any assist from metropolis psychological well being professionals.
The 2 ladies have been with Neilly when cops arrested him outdoors their constructing on West sixty fifth Road close to West Finish Avenue.
“I’ll be proper again,” the aunt recalled Neilly telling them. “I gotta go throughout the road to speak to my parole officer.”
Two white vehicles then drove up and cops jumped out. One in every of them had his gun drawn, the ladies mentioned.
“I feel he acquired startled and tried to run nevertheless it dawned on him, ‘Don’t run,’” the aunt mentioned. “He walked again…and held his fingers up.”
Choose Jeffrey Gershuny — a 2019 appointee of former Mayor Invoice de Blasio — ignored prosecutors’ request for $50,000 money bail or $150,000 bond and let him go even if Neilly was already on parole.
Neilly, whose delivery mother and grandmother died when he was in jail, returned to the Higher West Aspect pad after Gershuny set him free, the ladies mentioned.
“I instructed him, ‘I like you. Keep out of bother,’” the adoptive granny recalled.
Neilly appeared down and instructed her, “‘Okay, grandma, I like you too,’” she recalled.
She mentioned she gained’t tolerate his “taking part in video games once more.”
The granny added: “I’m going to ring his neck.”
