Declan Murphy was standing at the upper window of his home in Dublin waiting for his tiger kidnappers to arrive. It was early 2012 and the then finance director of G4 Cash Solutions had received a call a few hours earlier from Brian Sherry, a retired detective inspector. Sherry was G4’s security advisor and he had sourced intelligence that a criminal gang was coming to kidnap Murphy, his wife, and his two young children. It wasn’t the first attempt by a gang to go after Murphy, a senior executive in the biggest cash transportation company in Ireland. Two years before,…

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