This is an unpublished story which I wrote for an in-class exercise about tiger kidnappings in Ireland. This is written in tabloid style.
IRELAND’S ordinary, hard-working citizens are being increasingly terrorised by crazed tiger kidnappers.
Today’s career criminals are now preying more and more on the humble shop and pub owner by abducting their families in return for cash.
This horrific activity started in the 1970s with the abduction of a bank manager and his family that resulted in the crooks clearing out a local Nat West vault.
Since then this dreadful crime has exploded on the promise of easy money and the perpetrators have found a new and vulnerable target.
Nowadays anyone with access to readily available cash is a potential target for these monstrous criminals that think nothing of traumatising women and young children.
With the lure of potentially great rewards, these cowards to go to extraordinary lengths to stalk out their prey and then strike by abducting and imprisoning the victim and their family.
The terrified victims are usually held overnight under the threat of violence, and the following morning the main target is forced to their place of work and asked to empty the premises of valuables.
At this time, the countries suffering most from the scourge of Tiger kidnappings are Ireland, the United Kingdom and Belgium.
Charlie Flanagan, a member of the Irish Parliament recently said that Tiger kidnappings are occurring “at a rate of almost one per week.”
Some experts are saying have described Ireland as a perfect place for tiger kidnappings because it is “a close-knit society where criminals can closely track their targets.”
Only last week the terrified wife of a security firm director was abducted from her home at gunpoint.
The gang of masked men threatened to murder the woman, and she was only released from her 12-hour ordeal after her husband was forced to hand over €170,000.
Gardai investigating the case later described the gang as “experienced and ruthless”.
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