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2021-10-21 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
The Special Criminal Court has delayed delivering its verdicts in relation to four men accused of abducting and torturing Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney. The three judges of the non-jury court had initially said they would deliver their...
2021-08-06 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
(Pictured: Accused Mr Luke O'Reilly. Photo: Collins) The Special Criminal Court will deliver its verdict on October 22 in the trials of four men accused of abducting and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney. On the final day of the...
2021-08-04 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
(Pictured: Defence Counsel Mr Michael O'Higgins SC. Photo: Collins) The actions of one of the men accused of abducting and torturing Kevin Lunney are "very suspicious" but do not lead to the inevitable conclusion that he was one of the men who bundled the...
2021-07-26 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
Defective walkie-talkie batteries caused a fire that destroyed a van allegedly used in the abduction and assault of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney, the Special Criminal Court has heard. Detective Sergeant Jim McDevitt of Cavan Garda Station...
2021-07-23 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
(Pictured: Accused Mr Darren Redmond. Photo: Collins) A scientist found DNA matching that of Kevin Lunney in the same van where he found DNA matching one of the men accused of abducting and torturing the Quinn Industrial Holdings director, the Special...
2021-07-22 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
One of the four men accused of abducting and assaulting Kevin Lunney replied "no comment" when asked by gardai to account for being captured driving a van in which blood matching that of the Quinn Industrial Holdings director was later found. The question...
2021-07-20 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
A garda searching the home of one of the men accused of abducting and assaulting businessman Kevin Lunney found a book entitled "The Forensic Casebook, The Science of Crime Scene Investigation", the Special Criminal Court has heard. Detective Garda Lisa...
2021-07-12 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
(Pictured: Accused Mr Luke O'Reilly. Credit: Collins) A forensic scientist found blood inside a horse box in a yard belonging to one of the men accused of abducting and assaulting businessman Kevin Lunney, the Special Criminal Court has heard. Dr Yvonne...
2021-06-17 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
(Pictured: Accused Mr Darren Redmond. Credit: Collins) Lawyers for Darren Redmond, one of the men accused of abducting and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney, are disputing the prosecution's attempt to link their client to a phone...
2021-06-15 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
(Pictured: Mr Justice Tony Hunt. Credit: Collins) A judge presiding in the trial of four men accused of abducting and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney has questioned why the Court of Justice of the European Union has not set out in...
2021-06-14 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
(Pictured: Prosecution Counsel Mr Sean Guerin SC. Credit: Collins) Lawyers for the State have told the Special Criminal Court that gardai were entitled to use mobile phone data in their investigation of the abduction and assault on Quinn Industrial Holdings...
2021-06-11 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
(Pictured: Defence Counsel Mr Michael O'Higgins SC. Credit: Collins) Gardai have repeatedly broken the law by accessing illegally retained mobile phone data, a barrister has argued at the trial of four men accused of falsely imprisoning and causing serious...
2021-06-10 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
(Pictured: Defence Counsel Mr Michael O'Higgins SC. Credit: Collins) A barrister representing one of the men accused of abducting and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney has criticised the government's failure to legislate on how...
2021-06-09 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
(Pictured: Defence Counsel Mr Michael O'Higgins SC. Credit: Collins) Mobile phone data collected by gardai investigating the abduction and assault of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney was obtained using invalid search warrants, a lawyer has...
2021-06-09 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
(Pictured: Defence Counsel Mr Michael O'Higgins SC. Credit: Collins) Lawyers will this afternoon outline why they say mobile phone evidence should not be used in the trial of four men accused of falsely imprisoning and causing serious harm to Quinn...
2021-06-08 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
(Pictured: Defence Counsel Mr Michael O'Higgins SC. Credit: Collins) Lawyers defending four men accused of falsely imprisoning and causing serious harm to Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) Director Kevin Lunney, are challenging the admissibility of mobile...
2021-06-03 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
(Pictured: Accused Mr Luke O'Reilly. Credit: Collins) Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney feared that nobody would come to help as he dragged himself along a country road, shivering from the cold, with a broken leg, knife wounds to his chest, and...
2021-06-02 · Kilcogy, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
(Pictured: Accused Mr Luke O'Reilly. Credit: Collins) Kevin Lunney was told to resign from Quinn Industrial Holdings by attackers who threatened to kill him, broke his leg and used a Stanley blade to "score his chest", the Special Criminal Court has heard....
2021-06-01 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
(Pictured: Mr Justice Tony Hunt. Credit: Collins) The Special Criminal Court has rejected arguments that it has no jurisdiction to hear the trial of four men accused of causing serious harm to Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney. Michael...
2020-11-17 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
(Pictured: Defence Counsel Mr Michael O'Higgins SC. Credit: Collins) Lawyers for one of the men accused of falsely imprisoning and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) director Kevin Lunney have told the Special Criminal Court that the case is not...
2020-11-02 · Ballinagh, Cavan · Special Criminal Court
The trial of four men accused of falsely imprisoning and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) director Kevin Lunney may not go ahead in January due to High Court challenges being brought by the defendants against the Special Criminal Court's...