Metro Herald, January 14, 2014

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A FAMILY kidnapped by armed robbers nine years ago have said the ordeal has changed their lives forever. Paul and Marie Richardson were speaking after one member of the kidnap gang was jailed for 15 years after a retrial. Speaking outside the court, Mr Richardson said the crime has left them with ‘ongoing stress and health issues’. He said: ‘It is almost nine years since the tiger kidnapping, when three men forcefully entered our home. The night changed our lives forever. There are others responsible and we look forward to them being brought to justice.’ Jason Kavanagh, 39, of Corduff Avenue, Blanchardstown, was previously jailed for the crime in 2009 but was freed in 2012 when the Court of Criminal Appeal quashed that conviction because of an unconstitutional search warrant. He was part of the gang which kidnapped the family of the Securicor worker in March 2005.

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The gang took Mr Richardson’s wife and their two teenage sons into the Dublin Mountains and held them at gunpoint overnight. Other gang members held Mr Richardson at the family home until the next morning when he was told to go to work and deliver company cash to a drop-off point. Kavanagh and three co-accused denied the charges of falsely imprisoning the Richardsons and robbery of €2.28million in cash from Mr Richardson and Securicor on March 14, 2005. After a 50-day trial, the jury failed to reach a verdict on charges against two men and found the third not guilty. Judge Martin Nolan said Kavanagh, who has 25 previous convictions, including assault, had played a serious role in a cold-blooded crime that involved the threat of extreme violence, and commended the ‘extreme fortitude’ shown by the Richardson family.

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