Gardaí: Kidnapped woman ‘lucky to escape with life’

Gardaí believe that a woman may have escaped with her life after she chanced upon two uniformed officers during an armed kidnap at the hands of her jilted boyfriend.

In the course of a terrifying ordeal, her partner stopped his car at a south Dublin petrol station and told her to buy cigarettes - warning her he would kill her if she didn’t come back.

In a twist of fate, there were two uniformed gardaí inside having coffee. She told them what was happening and they went out to the man’s car.