The phone call at 7.54pm lasted 42 seconds. Minutes later, bleach was bought from a local Gala shop and delivered to the yard at Drumbrade, Co Cavan where Kevin Lunney was being imprisoned and tortured by masked men.  The bleach was an afterthought to erase evidence. Lunney, the executive from Quinn Industrial Holdings, had resisted his three attackers. This had not been properly anticipated – an error by the gang. They tried scraping under his fingernails with a blade to eradicate potential forensics. Instead they drew blood. They even tried using eye drops. But it wasn’t enough.  With a rag…

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