A jury has convicted a Dubliner of being the “inside man” in a €2.08 million cash-in-transit van robbery carried out more than 13 years ago. After almost 18 hours of deliberations the jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court convicted Byrne of conspiracy to commit robbery. Earlier trialsThis is the third time Niall Byrne was prosecuted over the matter with the two earlier trials ending with hung juries. The jury on Monday convicted Farrelly, Corcoran and David Byrne of five counts of robbery and the false imprisonment of the Richardsons. The State’s case was that Niall Byrne, who worked for Securicor at the time of the robbery, was the “inside man” for the gang.

Source: The Irish Times May 22, 2018 14:03 UTC