Contractor tells court that vehicle used for kidnapping was stolen from him at site

A building contractor has described how a black Jeep used to kidnap a family in a €2.28m robbery was stolen from him at a Malahide construction site.

Mr Tony Coffey said he got out of the Jeep, leaving the key in the ignition at the site entrance on March 7, 2005 and had walked over to another work van when an employee cried out that his vehicle was "running off" down the road.