Jury discharged after failing to reach verdict in tiger kidnapping trial

The jury in the trial of a man accused of being involved in a tiger kidnapping has been discharged having failed to reach a verdict.

Stefan Saunders (aged 34) of Hazelbury Park, Blanchardstown had pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to robbing €134,000 from Reginald Shannon on January 4, 2010 and to falsely imprisoning him, his mother, Angela Shannon, and a child at O’Connell Gardens on Bath Avenue on the same date.