Kevin Lunney case: Lawyer claims mobile phone data obtained using invalid search warrants

'Information deficit' in application for warrant for phone recrds relating to accused, counsel argues

Kevin Lunney has told the court that he was bundled into the boot of a car near his home and driven to a container where he was threatened and told to resign from QIH. File picture

Mobile phone data collected by gardaí investigating the abduction and assault of Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) director Kevin Lunney were obtained using invalid search warrants, a lawyer has argued at the Special Criminal Court.

Michael O'Higgins, for one of the accused, said there was an "information deficit" in the application for a warrant for phone records relating to his client and that the warrant was executed at the wrong address.