Dublin man jailed for hostage incident

A man has been jailed for 15 years in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his part in holding four people hostage for up to two hours.

He was also given a 12 year sentence for the robbery of £7, 773 from the restaurant to which one of the people he had held hostage was the proprietor. This sentence is to run concurrently to the 15 years and both were backdated to May 2000.