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08/11/2010
Brinks Boss Hands Over Cash
The latest 'tiger kidnapping' of a woman, whose husband is a senior executive with Brinks Allied, the cash-in-transit company, had seen the victim left gagged and tied up in a shed at the rear of a derelict house on Howth Road in Dublin.
Her husband was forced to hand over €170,000 to the gang after they threatened to murder his wife.
Mrs Hoyne was released after fire-fighters, who were called to the scene by passers-by after her Mercedes car was set on fire by the gang, heard her banging on the shed.
It is understood there is a long driveway up to the house and it would have been difficult to hear her banging from the road.
By the time she was found she had endured more than 12 traumatic hours.
The kidnappers, dressed in boiler suits and masks, burst into the couple's detached home in Monasterboice, Co Louth, at around 9pm on Friday and held them at gunpoint.
Mrs Hoyne was pushed into her silver Mercedes and driven to the Howth Road, where they left her bound and gagged. They made no arrangements for her to be released.
Her husband was forced to go to the Brinks Allied depot in Clonshaugh, Dublin at 7.30am in his Toyota Landcruiser. He was told his wife would be murdered if he did not hand over a substantial sum of money.
The Brinks Allied managing director gave a relatively modest €170,000 to the gang. The money was left in his Landcruiser jeep at Thatch Road, Whitehall, in Dublin.
(BMcC/GK)
Her husband was forced to hand over €170,000 to the gang after they threatened to murder his wife.
Mrs Hoyne was released after fire-fighters, who were called to the scene by passers-by after her Mercedes car was set on fire by the gang, heard her banging on the shed.
It is understood there is a long driveway up to the house and it would have been difficult to hear her banging from the road.
By the time she was found she had endured more than 12 traumatic hours.
The kidnappers, dressed in boiler suits and masks, burst into the couple's detached home in Monasterboice, Co Louth, at around 9pm on Friday and held them at gunpoint.
Mrs Hoyne was pushed into her silver Mercedes and driven to the Howth Road, where they left her bound and gagged. They made no arrangements for her to be released.
Her husband was forced to go to the Brinks Allied depot in Clonshaugh, Dublin at 7.30am in his Toyota Landcruiser. He was told his wife would be murdered if he did not hand over a substantial sum of money.
The Brinks Allied managing director gave a relatively modest €170,000 to the gang. The money was left in his Landcruiser jeep at Thatch Road, Whitehall, in Dublin.
(BMcC/GK)
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