My kids suspected me of kidnapping Kevin Lunney
Irish Daily Mirror|September 13, 2023
Former tycoon admits family doubted he had no role in brutal attack
SEAN MURPHY
My kids suspected me of kidnapping Kevin Lunney

FORMER billionaire Sean Quinn has admitted he was suspected by his own family of kidnapping ex-colleague Kevin Lunney.

Mr Quinn, 75, who had an estimated €5billion, was once Ireland's richest man until the economic crash of 2008 saw him declared bankrupt.

Mr Lunney, 53, was abducted from outside his Fermanagh home by a gang in September 2019, assaulted and dumped on a road in Co Cavan.

During a court trial in which three men were jailed in November 2021 for the crime, an unidentified "paymaster" was accused of funding the attack.

The Special Criminal Court heard father-of-six Mr Lunney's car was rammed and set on fire.

He was tied up in a horse box, beaten, his face was slashed and the initials QIH were carved into his chest.

His leg was broken with a wooden bat and he was ordered to resign from his job before he was doused with bleach and dumped on a roadside.

Mr Quinn branded the assault "barbaric" and vowed in a TV documentary last November he had no role in it.

But it was yesterday reported that his own family may have questioned this.

This story is from the September 13, 2023 edition of Irish Daily Mirror.

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