Tiger-kidnap bank worker testifies

A Bank of Ireland employee was warned by an armed gang that there would be “blood on your hands” if he did not co-operate during a €7.6m ‘tiger-kidnapping’ heist in Dublin, the High Court has been told.

Shane Travers became distressed when telling a jury he feared for his own life, and the lives of his girlfriend, her mother, and young nephew, after an armed and masked gang took them captive on the night of February 26/27, 2009.

The incident changed his life and he was “devastated and disgusted” when, less than a year later, he read a newspaper article which, he said, insinuated he had something to do with a crime “of which I was a victim”.