Jim Mansfield Jnr denies false imprisonment conspiracy at trial

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Jim Mansfield Jnr has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to falsely imprison Martin Byrne and attempting to pervert the course of justice at the Special Criminal Court; the trial evidence reported on 6 November 2020 included Byrne’s account of his abduction.

Byrne testified that Mansfield was present when a group took him from Keating’s Park in June 2015. Mansfield denies the charges.