Mark Farrelly’s false imprisonment convictions upheld

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Mark Farrelly’s convictions for false imprisonment and robbery were upheld by the Court of Appeal, reported on 20 April 2020. The offences arose from the 2005 tiger kidnapping of a Dublin family and a €2.08m cash-in-transit robbery. The court said it was satisfied the convictions were safe and would dismiss the appeals.

Farrelly and two co-accused had argued that evidence gathered by gardaí was obtained through an unconstitutional breach and should have been excluded. The Court of Appeal was not persuaded by the grounds advanced in the appeals.