Postmistress settles action against An Post over tiger kidnapping

Actions by Ms Lawlor’s two daughters and an Italian exchange student who was in the house at the time of the incident have also been settled

Postmistress Susan Lawlor (pictured) 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 sued An Post after she was the victim of a tiger kidnapping, in which she was tied up and told she would be shot, has settled her High Court action.

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.