ROBBER Jason Jarvis has been jailed for 13 years after a jury convicted him of holding up the same bank twice within seven months.

A jury found the 40-year-old guilty of carrying out the raid in June last year when they returned a unanimous at the end of last week.

Now, after more than two days of deliberation, they have convicted him of the earlier raid by a majority of ten to two.

Shortly before the first guilty verdict was returned Jarvis taunted the police from the dock, saying ‘You thought it would be easy’, referring to the time it had taken the jury.

But as they filed out of court with the other charge still to deliberate over, he chided them, saying ‘shame on you’ and making similar comments to the police after they had gone.

Jarvis denied both offences claiming that, despite him being a “toe rag”, he was being fitted up by the police. He was never suspected of carrying out the first offence, in December 2010, until a DNA match after the second robbery.

DC Becky Smart told the jury the trail had gone cold following that offence due to a lack of evidence.

When Jarvis, who has a history of similar crime, returned to Swindon from Flint, in north Wales, he went back to the same branch to carry out another raid.

But as he fled the scene a dog walker got a good look at him and later picked him out in an identity parade.

And he also discarded the latex glove and heavy padded coat he was wearing on the warm summer morning, both of which contained his DNA.

When police finally caught up with him they found a series of text messages on his phone where he accused people of “grassing him up” He had signed them “Shooter Jason.”

He claimed he had completed numerous courses in prison on victim empathy and had put his days of serious crime behind him.

In 1994 he was jailed for seven years for a robbery at a post office where he was armed with a weapon.

In 2002 he was jailed for nine years at Southampton Crown Court for a bank robbery where he showed the cashier an imitation firearm.

In autumn 2009 in Swindon he was put on a community order for theft from a home.

A month later he burgled a business premises on the County Business Park twice in a matter of days, making off with hundreds of pounds worth of electrical items.

On both occasions officers found blood at the scene. Jarvis tried to explain it away by saying he was a blood donor and someone was framing him. But after admitting carrying out the offences he was jailed for 48 weeks.