Unlawful warrant sees man acquitted

A Dublin man has been acquitted by direction of the trial judge of robbery and of falsely imprisoning a Brinks Allied employee, his mother, and a child.

Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court had earlier ruled that gardaí searched the home of the accused and seized items using a type of warrant since deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

Reginald Shannon said he was ordered by a group of masked men to get as much money as he could from a colleague making a cash drop while his mother and a child, who had been taken from his home, were driven around in a car for several hours before being released in south Dublin.