Lunney abductor claims verdict at Special Criminal Court breached his rights

A man convicted at the Special Criminal Court of kidnapping and assaulting a Quinn Industrial Holdings director has launched a High Court challenge against his conviction and 30-year sentence. Alan Harte claims that Section 40 of the 1939 Offences Against the State Act breaches his constitutional rights by preventing disclosure of whether his conviction was unanimous or by majority decision. He argues this creates…