LMFM Anthony Finglas was brought in as the so-called “muscle” for the gang who carried out the abduction.
A man has been jailed for his role in the abduction of a businessman who was seriously assaulted after being lured to a remote location near the border.
Anthony Finglas, of Havelock Place, Warrenpoint, Co. Down, was brought in as the so-called “muscle” for the gang, who demanded money from him.
Under the pretense of looking at some machinery for sale, Edward McAndrew travelled to Dundalk on December 2nd 2017.
From there, he was lured to a farmhouse near the border where he was surrounded by three masked men – two of whom were armed with iron bars.
A grandfather acting as the brawn in a gang who claimed to be dissident republicans and who beat a businessman so severely that he asked to be shot to end his ordeal, has been jailed by the Special Criminal Court.
The Special Criminal Court heard that Mayo businessman Edward McAndrew was beaten with iron bars and threatened by a group of men demanding money in Omeath, Co Louth, in 2017. The men told Mr McAndrew that they were members of the Continuity IRA and falsely imprisoned him in the boot of a car.
Mr McAndrew had been lured to Omeath by the gang on the pretence that they had some plant machinery to sell him.