HELSINKI, Finland (Reuters) -- A popular Finnish television dating game unwittingly paired a woman contestant with an ex-convict bank robber, the daily Iltalehti said Tuesday.

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After a tip-off, the show's producer warned the contestant that she was about to go on a romantic prize voyage with a man who had been jailed for five years for a bank robbery in 1983 in which a policeman was gunned down by an accomplice."She said she would reconsider the trip," the newspaper quoted the producer of the show as saying.

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