Court hears of complaint against gardaí over 'planted' DNA in Kevin Lunney abduction case

Luke O'Reilly pictured leaving Virginia District Court in Co Cavan last year. He and three others are charged with false imprisonment and assault causing serious harm to Kevin Lunney at Drumbrade, Ballinagh, Co. Cavan on September 17, 2019. File photo: Niall Carson/PA

One of the four men accused of falsely imprisoning and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) director Kevin Lunney has complained to the Garda Ombudsman that DNA was "planted" on a van that he says was deliberately destroyed in a fire so it wouldn't be made available to the defence, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

However, lawyers for the State told the three-judge court that the fire began accidentally.