Man gets out on bail after tiger kidnapping conviction quashed

A man who had his conviction quashed for the tiger kidnapping of a Securicor driver and his family has been granted bail pending his retrial.

Christopher Corcoran (aged 64) of Bayside, Boulevard North, Dublin and had been jailed for 12 years in 2009 after he was convicted by a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury of robbing €2.28m from Paul Richardson and falsely imprisoning his wife and two sons.