Gang abducts bank official’s husband in €130,000 raid

GARDAÍ are hunting an armed gang of at least six men who forced a female bank official to hand over €130,000 in cash and took her husband hostage in Ireland’s latest tiger kidnapping.

The couple, in their early 30s, were approached by the gang at their home in the Dun Emer lawn estate in Lusk, north County Dublin, at approximately 9am.

After a short altercation the woman, who had just returned after dropping off her young child to a local crèche, was ordered to travel to the Bank of Ireland branch in Coolock village where she worked and remove the money.