4YRS JAIL FOR DUFFY; Ex-INLA chief 'left group'.Byline: DANIEL HICKEY FORMER terror chief Declan "Whacker" Duffy was jailed for INLA Noun 1. INLA - a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland Catholic Reaction Force, Irish National Liberation Army, People's Liberation Army, People's Republican Army membership yesterday - after publicly disowning the paramilitary group. The notorious gangster, from Armagh city, was sentenced to four years at Dublin's Special Criminal Court. Duffy, 35, was charged with membership by Gardai investigating an alleged extortion attempt in Cork city. The court heard the Dublin-based crime boss was part of a gang tailed by Gardai in 2007 as they prepared to extort To compel or coerce, as in a confession or information, by any means serving to overcome the other's power of resistance, thus making the confession or admission involuntary. To gain by wrongful methods; to obtain in an unlawful manner, as in to compel payments by means of threats of money from Cork businessman Denis Maguire. Five men were arrested in Cork in relation to the proposed extortion and were charged with INLA membership. Two of those men have pleaded guilty while the other three are currently on trial. Duffy was arrested on June 22 last year. His house was GUILTY Declan Duffy searched and books of evidence relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc three men charged with offences before the Special Criminal Court were found. The court heard how Duffy was interviewed 12 times by gardai but Det Supt Diarmaid O'Sullivan said he "generally was evasive in relation to the answers". Duffy has previous convictions at the Special Criminal Court. In January 2001 he was sentenced to five years for possession of a handgun on October 6 1999. He was also sentenced to nine years each for four further convictions, including false imprisonment false imprisonment, complete restraint upon a person's liberty of movement without legal justification. Actual physical contact is not necessary; a show of authority or a threat of force is sufficient. The person falsely imprisoned may sue the offender for damages. of four men, detaining them without their consent on the same date. Ms Justice Elizabeth Dunne, presiding at the three-judge, nonjury court, said the offence is a "serious one". Duffy's guilty plea was taken into consideration. However, Ms Justice Dunne said another "significant factor" was Duffy's previous convictions. She added: "It is disturbing that within eight months of his release the accused was involved in the events leading up to this offence." |
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