Teenager held by gardaí after botched tiger kidnapping

A 16-year-old boy was last night being held in Limerick in connection with an armed tiger kidnapping which gardaí uncovered when checking out a suspect vehicle.

The boy is being held under section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act at Henry St Garda station. A man aged 19, whose relatives run a post office in the Limerick area, was abducted at gunpoint and held for nearly two hours before gardaí helped free him.

Events unfolded at about 11.30pm on Sunday at the victim’s house in the Groody area of the city. On answering the front door, he was confronted by at least three men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.