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THREE PEOPLE WHO were arrested by gardaí on Thursday in connection with the abduction of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney have been released without charge.
Two men – one in his 20s and another in his 40s – had been arrested along with a woman in her 50s. They’d been held at garda stations in Kells, Cavan and Monaghan.
Lunney was taken from his car near his home in Derrylin, Co Fermanagh on the evening of 23 September.
He was savagely assaulted and tortured before being left at the side of the road with serious injuries at Drumcoughill, Cornafean in Co Cavan a number of hours later.
No-one had been arrested in relation to the case until now, and gardaí and PSNI recently formed a joint investigation team to step up their investigation into the attack and threats against other Quinn directors.
Last week, the main suspect in the investigation, Cyril McGuinness, died after taking ill during a police raid on a property in Derbyshire in the UK.
Gardaí said today that the three people arrested had been released without charge from garda custody in the early hours this morning.
A file will now be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
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Not even a file for the DPP?? So, no evidence and no link, just a “you know we know” moment?
@roberto Mankini: The very last line states a file is being prepared for the DPP
@roberto Mankini: Read the (short) article before you rant.
@Nick Caffrey: I’m well capable of reading before commenting thanks – that last line wasn’t in the original article.
@roberto Mankini: You can’t get detained for questioning for nothing; gardaí must be able to articulate a reason why you should be held. If they were unable to do so, any solicitor worth their salt would have you up in front of a judge for a habeas corpus hearing.
@roberto Mankini: read the full article
@roberto Mankini: The line was there when the article was published. It is easily missed, not a problem. So it seems that you are also incapable of admitting you are wrong.
@roberto Mankini: I read the article seconds after it was posted and managed to find the last line
strategy. Now these 3 won’t be able to provide an alibi for the guy the cops really want. Harder for them to confect a coherent narrative. Expect another arrest early next week
If these guys are the main suspects, why would they release them. Why could they not charge them and hold them? Genuine question.
@DaMoons: The DPP has to decide on what, if any, charges are made. They won’t do that without a comprehensive file on the incident. Such a file will take time to prepare, and you cannot hold someone in custody without charge.
@Joe Bloggs: Charge them and refuse bail. If the Gards are sure these guys are guilty, they should not be out roaming the streets.
@DaMoons: is it too much to ask the bar stool legal professionals here they should go away and read learn a few basics before bothering to comment at al if they have interest in legalities …. just a few basics ….and if they aren’t interested grand -just read the articles without bothering to comment at all…..especially nonsense like why is there no file for the DPP – FFS its a half page article it’s not that difficult.
You have to have a very tight case before you can actually arrest. Any holes in the story and their Barristers will gut the other side like a fish.
DPP will now read through and it is up to them. Fishy.
@Rosie: Arresting someone, detaining them for questioning & then releasing them pending submission of a file to the DPP is standard practice; there’s nothing fishy about this.
we have a few sore heads in this morning. Could be that the Journal has a lot of very upsetting news regarding our country , but they could pepper it out a bit with some good news like the man who was found having been missing [80year old] there must be something positive in Ireland that merits writing about.
Love to see the state persue the attackers of an ordinary member of the public with the same vigor.. Not a hope of that happening though.
Just a bit of badly needed media exposure for the boys in blue.
I see Mr. Quinn sent a letter to the vatican complaining that the local parish priest in ballyconnell implicated him in the attack on Kevin Lunney even though the priest only talked about a paymaster bankrolling the attack. Wonder why Mr. Quinn would think the priest was talking about him???
roberto, go back to sleep!!
So they were arrested for show???
What happened to the hang them brigade when this story was reported. Not for a second condoning the savage attack on Kevin lunney , but even before the arrested were charged or released the hang them brigade were out in full force.
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