Latest Lunney attack arrest released without charge

 

A male, aged in his mid-50s, who was arrested yesterday in connection with the abduction and assault of Quinn Industrial Holdings Director Kevin Lunney has been released without charge.

“A file will be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions,” a spokesperson for An Garda Siochana informed The Anglo-Celt this morning.

The man, its understood, was arrested on Thursday morning, March 12, in the Mullahoran area.

He had been detained at Cavan Garda Station under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007.

Four people were arrested in connection with the ongoing investigation earlier this month as part of a cross-border investigation into the attack on Mr Lunney.

That included two men and a woman arrested by PSNI detectives in Co Fermanagh.

All three have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm with intent and assisting offenders.

They were questioned at Omagh Police Station but later released without charge.

The fourth person arrested was a man in his 30s in the West Cavan area.

He too had been held at Cavan Garda Station, and again was later released without charge.

At the time Chief Superintendent John O'Reilly of the Cavan Monaghan Garda Division said the arrests are a further “significant step” the perpetrators of the attack on dad-of-six Mr Lunney will be brought to justice.

Mr Lunney was abducted on his way home from work on September 17. He was severely beaten and left on the side of a rural roadway near Cornafean.

Four other men have been charged in relation to that attack and are currently before the courts.