A Dublin man has been acquitted by direction of the trial judge of robbery and of falsely imprisoning a Brinks Allied employee, his mother, and a child.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of being involved in a tiger kidnapping has been discharged having failed to reach a verdict.

A man has gone on trial charged with a false imprisonment and robbery of a Brinks Allied worker which the prosecution claim has the accused’s “fingerprints both literally and figuratively all over it”.

GARDAÍ suspect that one of the country’s top tiger kidnap gangs was behind last Monday’s kidnapping in Dublin.