Man told court family chained him to radiator

A man accused of conspiring with his mother to attack his father and handcuff him to a bathroom radiator at a B&B in Cork claimed that the accusation was part of a Machiavellian plot by his father.

The jury took only 20 minutes yesterday afternoon to return unanimous not guilty verdicts on the charges against the man and his mother.

Nireshan Naidoo, 29, and his mother, Vesalatachee Naidoo, 62, from London and with no fixed address in Ireland, denied charges of falsely imprisoning Arumugan Naidoo, robbing him of cash, passport and reading glasses, and assault causing harm to him at Gabriel House on Summerhill South on April 29, 2009.