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# kidnapping - Friday 26 July, 2019
Austrian triathlete escapes kidnapping after convincing her captor to let her go
“He was full of hatred,” Nathalie Birli said. “He blindfolded me, forced me to drink wine, and he always held a knife in his hand.”
# kidnapping - Thursday 13 June, 2019
Police release footage of moment 5-month-old baby rescued from kidnapping in UK
35-year-old James Dempsey was jailed for 27 months today over the incident.
# kidnapping - Thursday 28 March, 2019
US man pleads guilty to kidnapping girl and killing her parents
The 13-year-old victim was held captive in a remote cabin for three months.
# kidnapping - Tuesday 15 January, 2019
Kidnapping suspect 'kept teenager under bed for nearly three months' after shooting her parents
When Jake Thomas Patterson left the remote cabin on the 88th day of her captivity, Jayme Closs finally made a break for freedom.
# kidnapping - Friday 19 October, 2018
'Give me a break' - Benzema rubbishes reports of involvement in attempted kidnapping
A former acquaintance who owes Real Madrid’s French striker €50,000 has made the allegation.
# kidnapping - Monday 16 July, 2018
Judge says victims of tiger kidnapping deserve 'enormous respect' as she jails men for total of 52 years
This was the fifth time the case went to trial.
# kidnapping - Tuesday 30 January, 2018
Armed raiders pointed gun at boy's head while he had panic attack, court hears
Four men are accused of kidnapping a man’s family and stealing €2.28 million.
# kidnapping - Saturday 5 August, 2017
Man arrested after British model (20) kidnapped, drugged and auctioned on dark web for €250,000
A 30-year-old Polish man has been charged with orchestrating the kidnapping.
# kidnapping - Tuesday 13 June, 2017
Man accused of abducting, and stealing savings from, his own elderly father granted bail
Accused James O’Connor is charged with abduction and is also alleged to have stolen over €8,000 of his father’s pension and credit union savings.
# kidnapping - Tuesday 30 May, 2017
Westmeath man who kidnapped his ex-partner handed 7-year jail term
At the time of the false imprisonment, the accused would not accept that the relationship was over.
# kidnapping - Friday 28 April, 2017
Cyprus police make arrests in hunt for kidnapped girl
The child’s Norwegian father and Greek Cypriot mother have been engaged in a bitter custody battle.
# kidnapping - Wednesday 1 March, 2017
Man wanted on charges of kidnapping his ex-partner surrenders himself to authorities
The man was arrested on a European Arrest Warrant and surrendered to Northern Irish authorities.
# kidnapping - Wednesday 21 December, 2016
Man threatened to cut off penis of man he wrongly thought was a sex offender
Morgan Doran was one of four men who abducted a young man they wrongly believed sexually assaulted a girl.
Man convicted of kidnapping ex-partner, jury fails to reach verdict on rape charge
The man allegedly beat and threatened the mother of his children throughout their five-year relationship.
# kidnapping - Wednesday 21 September, 2016
Uefa vice president's niece found dead after kidnapping
The woman’s body was found in Mexico after being held for ransom for several days.
# kidnapping - Wednesday 14 September, 2016
Man 'hijacks woman's car' before crashing with her still in it in early morning drama
The incident began at 5am this morning near Dublin Airport.
# kidnapping - Monday 15 August, 2016
South African woman jailed for 10 years for kidnapping baby she raised as her own
The girl’s real identity came to light in February 2015, when her younger biological sister began attending the same school.
# kidnapping - Sunday 14 August, 2016
Hate mail, attacks and hugs: Ten years after being freed from her kidnapper
“I am not angry,” says Natascha Kampusch
# kidnapping - Tuesday 19 July, 2016
Primark kidnapping: 'They offered her sweets... there was a level of planning'
Two teenage girls were detained for three years and three months at a sentencing hearing yesterday.
# kidnapping - Friday 1 July, 2016
Trucker accused of keeping women as sex slaves faces 20 years in prison
Timothy Vafeades allegedly trapped a series of women on his truck the Twilight Express over the course of 30 years.
# kidnapping - Tuesday 7 June, 2016
The 5 at 5: Tuesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
# kidnapping - Tuesday 31 May, 2016
Mexican footballer beat his kidnapper up in order to free himself
He threatened and beat his captor while on the phone, demanding to be told where they were.
# kidnapping - Monday 16 May, 2016
Utah father and son arrested after five women lured into house and tied up in basement
It is believed both men had been using methamphetamine heavily.
# kidnapping - Tuesday 12 April, 2016
Fake kidnapping case: Kevin McGeever's sentence suspended to not waste more taxpayer money
The property developer was guilty of wasting garda time by giving false information about his own alleged kidnapping.
# kidnapping - Thursday 31 March, 2016
The 9 at 9: Thursday
Here’s what you need to know as you start your day.
# kidnapping - Wednesday 30 March, 2016
Big rise in kidnapping, murder threats and sexual offences
But there’s been a massive drop in the number of murders, according to new crime statistics.
# kidnapping - Monday 22 February, 2016
Woman on trial for stealing baby, 18 years after snatching newborn
Zephany Nurse was reunited with her birth family after unwittingly getting to know her biological sister.
# kidnapping - Sunday 24 January, 2016
# kidnapping - Monday 18 January, 2016
Group of American civilians kidnapped in Iraq
The individuals were taken from an interpreter’s home in Baghdad.
# kidnapping - Monday 4 January, 2016
Concern after five booksellers critical of Chinese government disappear
They are feared to have been detained by Chinese authorities.
# kidnapping - Friday 4 December, 2015
Gardaí want to know if you saw these two vans involved in the tiger kidnapping
There have been calls for cash-in-transit van employees to sit mandatory training in how to deal with situations like a tiger kidnapping.
# kidnapping - Thursday 3 December, 2015
Family found safe and well after tiger kidnapping
A ransom was handed over.
# kidnapping - Monday 30 November, 2015
YouTuber Sam Pepper has released a video featuring a 'prank' murder...
People are outraged. There are fresh calls for Pepper to be banned from the site altogether.
Here's why YouTuber Sam Pepper's new 'prank' video has caused so much outrage
There are fresh calls for him to be banned from the site altogether.
# kidnapping - Wednesday 18 November, 2015
Well-to-do London couple abducted boy from Nigeria and made him their slave for 24 years
Dr Emmanuel Edet engaged in charity work for children in the developing world, while keeping a Nigerian “house boy” trapped in his home.
# kidnapping - Friday 30 October, 2015
Man suspected of killing 4-year-old Bosnian refugee admits murdering another child
The little boy, a Bosnian refugee, was abducted from a registration centre for asylum seekers.
# kidnapping - Wednesday 14 October, 2015
Terrorists release video of tourists kidnapped from Philippine resort
The video shows three men and a woman at gunpoint.
# kidnapping - Monday 7 September, 2015
Mexico's government says corrupt cops kidnapped 43 students and burned them - investigators disagree
The medical and legal experts from Spain and Latin America said they don’t believe the official story.
# kidnapping - Tuesday 18 August, 2015
Kidnapped teenage girl found dead in Germany
A ransom for her safe return was set at over €1 million.
# kidnapping - Monday 27 July, 2015
Former caddie claims Robert Allenby's Hawaii kidnapping story isn't true
Allenby told the media in January that he had been drugged, kidnapped, robbed and beaten following a night out in a Waikiki wine bar.
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Poll: Is it fair to ask politicians about their own personal drug use?
TAOISEACH LEO VARADKAR and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin went head-to-head in the first live televised election debate last night where a range of issues from healthcare to housing were discussed.
One moment that set people talking was towards the end of the debate when presenter Pat Kenny asked each of the candidates if they have ever used illegal drugs.
While Martin instantly replied that he has never taken illegal drugs, Varadkar said he already answered this question in an interview several years ago. After he was pressed for an answer from Kenny and Martin, Varadkar admitted he had used illegal drugs but said it was “obviously a long time ago.”
Speaking on the Tonight Show after the debate, Fr Peter McVerry dismissed it as a pointless question, adding that only people buying drugs regularly should have to account for their moral decision.
It is clear that a wider debate is to be had around personal drug use and how much of this should be shared by those running for elected office.
So today we’re asking you: Is it fair to ask politicians about their own personal drug use?
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