Bid to adjourn Lunney verdict until after Dwyer case opinion is rejected

The Special Criminal Court in Dublin has refused a defence application seeking to postpone the verdict in the trial of four men charged with abducting and assaulting Kevin Lunney, a Quinn Industrial Holdings executive, pending a European Court of Justice ruling on mobile phone data evidence. The defence had argued that a pending CJEU opinion in the Graham Dwyer case, which concerns the lawfulness of mobile phone…