>Giving the court’s judgment, Mr Justice Alex Owens said although the “most likely” scenario was that Mansfield “lured” Mr Byrne to a meeting with O’Hare and Duffy on the morning of 9 June 2015, with a view to facilitating his kidnap and removal from his home, the court could not reasonably exclude the possibilities that O’Hare had misled Mansfield about the purpose of the meeting or that Mansfield was not privy to the kidnap plot.
>The judge said there was no doubt that Mansfield had lied to gardaí when he claimed he had nothing to do with the meeting but he said that was not sufficient to prove that he was involved in the plot.
>However, the court found Mansfield had directed Patrick Byrne to destroy a hard drive containing CCTV footage which showed Mansfield leaving the Finnstown House Hotel with Martin Byrne on the morning in question.
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>Giving the court’s judgment, Mr Justice Alex Owens said although the “most likely” scenario was that Mansfield “lured” Mr Byrne to a meeting with O’Hare and Duffy on the morning of 9 June 2015, with a view to facilitating his kidnap and removal from his home, the court could not reasonably exclude the possibilities that O’Hare had misled Mansfield about the purpose of the meeting or that Mansfield was not privy to the kidnap plot.
>The judge said there was no doubt that Mansfield had lied to gardaí when he claimed he had nothing to do with the meeting but he said that was not sufficient to prove that he was involved in the plot.
>However, the court found Mansfield had directed Patrick Byrne to destroy a hard drive containing CCTV footage which showed Mansfield leaving the Finnstown House Hotel with Martin Byrne on the morning in question.
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