David Byrne’s €2.28m robbery convictions upheld on appeal

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David Byrne’s convictions for false imprisonment and €2.28m robbery were upheld by the Court of Appeal on 20 April 2020. The convictions arose from a March 2005 tiger-kidnapping-style robbery involving the Richardson family and a Securicor cash delivery in Dublin.

The court rejected the appeal grounds advanced by Byrne and his co-appellants, finding the convictions safe and saying the trial did not warrant interference. The judgment recorded that the prosecution case included mobile-phone traffic and other circumstantial evidence.