Five years for man who held cash after €7.66m bank heist

A Longford resident has been given a five-year sentence for possessing part of a €7.66m bank heist following the tiger kidnapping of a bank employee, his girlfriend and her family.

Gardaí accepted that 40-year-old Mark Donoghue, who was caught with €1.74m later that day, did not know that the victims had been held at gunpoint in their Kildare home the previous night.