Mark Farrelly jailed for €2m kidnapping robbery

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Mark Farrelly was jailed for 17-and-a-half years for his role in a €2.08m kidnapping and robbery, after a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court conviction reported on 16 July 2018. The offence involved the abduction of a security worker’s wife and two children from their Dublin home in March 2005.

The court convicted Farrelly of organising and directing the robbery, during which the family were threatened at gunpoint and left tied up in the Dublin Mountains. Three other men were also jailed for their roles, with sentences ranging from 10 years to 13-and-a-half years, including one term with five years suspended.