Tiger Kidnap Gang Jailed for 32 Years ; Trio Threatened to Kill Teen Girl During Robbery

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THREE men who pleaded guilty to a horrifying tiger kidnap robbery were yesterday jailed for a total of 32 years.

Imposing 11-year terms on convicted IRA bomber Sean Hughes, 38, Patrick Smyth, 46, and a 10-year term on 33-year-old Mark O'Neill at Belfast Crown Court, judge Mr Justice Stephens said they had played "central roles" in "an horrific ordeal, callously imposed on a vulnerable individual with sordid brutality".

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Tiger Kidnap Gang Jailed for 32 Years ; Trio Threatened to Kill Teen Girl During Robbery

During an earlier court hearing he heard a 19-year-old student was taken hostage by masked men from her own home on February 2007, and threatened she would be killed if her Post...

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