My kids suspected me of kidnapping Kevin Lunney

Former tycoon admits family doubted he had no role in brutal attack

- SEAN MURPHY

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.