Lunney abductor Harte claims conviction and 30-year sentence should be set aside

Alan Harte, convicted of the false imprisonment and serious assault of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney at a yard in Ballinagh, County Cavan in September 2019, has mounted a constitutional challenge to his conviction and thirty-year sentence imposed by the Special Criminal Court in 2021. The High Court heard Harte's application challenging the validity of Section 40 of the Offences Against the State…