Postmistress sues An Post over 'life-long stress and anxiety' from tiger kidnapping

Susan Lawlor followed An Post protocol by phoning a Hostage Helpline which was meant to activate a covert response, but instead lead to a call from an An Post worker in front of the robbers who 'went utterly ballistic', the court heard

Susan Lawlor (pictured) from Malahide who was the postmistress at Bayside Post Office, Dublin, was along with her daughter and an Italian student abducted from her home at gunpoint and driven around by her captors until the €80,000 contents of the post office safe were stolen in September 2014. File picture: Collins Courts

A postmistress who was the victim of a tiger kidnapping, tied up and told she would be shot has sued An Post in the High Court.

Susan Lawlor from Malahide who was the postmistress at Bayside Post Office, Dublin, was along with her daughter and an Italian student abducted from her home at gunpoint and driven around by her captors until the €80,000 contents of the post office safe were stolen in September 2014.