Behind bars for staging tiger raid
EIGHT-YEAR SENTENCE FOR 35-YEAR-OLD
A FORMER security worker who staged a tiger kidnapping which involved his house mates being bound with cable ties and threatened at gunpoint has been given an eight-year sentence with two suspended.
Darryl Caffrey ( 35), Cherry Park, River Valley, Swords, a former Chubb Ltd employee who had worked in the cash-intransit vans for the company, provided information to a criminal gang both in relation to his employer and the personal details of the two men he shared a home with.
Caffrey is already serving a three-year sentence for a similar type of offence which was imposed on him last January after he admitted 'to providing information concerning the operation of the business of Chubb Ireland Ltd' at Tesco, Shackleton Road, Celbridge on November 2nd, 2007.
He pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two charges of false imprisonment of Alan Molloy and Daniel Dobrescu and to committing an offence for a criminal organisation in that he attempted to steal € 1.25 million from Chubb Ltd on dates between January 7th and 8th, 2007. Judge Katherine Delahunt described it as a 'serious offence' with 'sinister overtones'.
' The cruelty of this attack on persons who were friends of yours is quite outstanding and one cannot feel anything but sympathy for your victims,' Judge Delahunt said. 'A kidnapping and false imprisonment such as this cannot be tolerated at any level,' Judge Delahunt said before she sentenced Caffrey to eight years which is to be served concurrently to the term imposed in January.
Detective Garda David Carolan told Mr Sean Guerin BL, prosecuting, that Caffrey was in the house himself when three masked raiders arrived. Mr Dobrescu, who had been woken up from his sleep by the intruders and dragged downstairs, believed that Caffrey was also a victim in the whole incident. Mr Molloy returned home from work later that night and had a gun pointed at his head. He was ordered to get on the ground before he was also tied up with cable ties but was struck with the butt of the gun when he did not get down immediately. The following November Caffrey was arrested for the attempted theft at Celbridge and he later made full admissions in relation to his case. Det Gda Carolan agreed with Mr Sean Gillane SC (with Ms Geraldine Biggs BL), defending, that there was nothing in his client's background that ' could have foretold his involvement in this serious offence with these sinister people'.
He said his client had got involved because of 'a combination of greed and stupidity, and an earlier association of someone he had previously worked for, that had spread like a cancer before it reached a stage where it was harder to get out of then it had been to get in to'.
