Further arrests over Belfast kidnap

Police investigating the kidnapping of a security van driver in Northern Ireland have arrested a 43-year-old man this morning…

Police investigating the kidnapping of a security van driver in Northern Ireland have arrested a 43-year-old man this morning.

A 35-year-old man arrested yesterday in Belfast remains in custody but another man (63) and a woman (64) held in Newry, Co Down have been released unconditionally.

The cash-in-transit worker was taken from his west Belfast home and forced to get money and hand it over to his armed and masked assailants.

His partner and a son aged 16 were rescued in Co Monaghan after they were taken hostage and kidnapped from home on Wednesday evening with pillow cases covering their heads.

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The kidnap happened at Teeling Grove, Dunmurry, west Belfast, on Wednesday evening.

While his wife and son were driven in a van to Co Monaghan, the employee was held overnight then forced to go to work and hand over a substantial sum to the gang in Muckamore industrial estate outside Antrim town the next day.

His wife and son were taken to the Aushnadamp area near Castleblayney, across the Border in Co Monaghan, by the thieves and were freed by gardaí on Thursday.