Jason Kavanagh convictions quashed in tiger kidnapping case

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Jason Kavanagh had his false-imprisonment and robbery convictions quashed by the Court of Criminal Appeal on 24 May 2012.

The convictions arose from the kidnapping of a family in Raheny, Dublin, and the robbery of €2.28 million from Securicor Security Services Ireland Limited in March 2005.

The court ruled that evidence obtained through constitutionally invalid search warrants could not support the convictions and ordered a retrial.

This report covers an earlier stage of the case. Later developments are not reported here.