‘The guy I was looking at was like a 90-year-old’

“Do it. Do it now. I have made my peace with God.”

The words of Kevin McGeever as he felt the cold steel of a pistol on his forehead while he lay, emaciated and bruised, in a darkened shipping container after being abducted by masked men from his palatial home in Galway last May.

The circumstances of his abduction are strange, to say the least. Stranger still was the manner of his release.