Police thanked after hijack

A PUBLICAN abducted on a business visit to west Africa thanked the local police yesterday for freeing him from an armed gang.

Ger Mulconroy, 72, had travelled to Sierra Leone to try and recover a large sum of money he had invested in a gold-mining venture.

He had just left the Birumani Hotel in the capital Freetown, when he was bundled into a 4x4 by a group of armed men.