Alan O’Brien convicted of false imprisonment and serious harm to Kevin Lunney

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The Special Criminal Court convicted Alan O’Brien, Darren Redmond and a man identified only as YZ of falsely imprisoning and intentionally causing serious harm to Kevin Lunney on 8 November 2021. The court acquitted Luke O’Reilly of both charges.

All four men had denied the charges. Mr Justice Tony Hunt delivered the verdicts for the three-judge, non-jury court.

The trial heard that Mr Lunney was bundled into the boot of a car and driven to a horse trailer on 17 September 2019. His leg was broken, he was doused in bleach and the letters QIH were carved into his chest. His attackers repeatedly told him to resign as a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings before leaving him on a roadside in Co Cavan.

O’Brien, Redmond and YZ were due to be sentenced on 22 November 2021.