‘Kidnap victims held at traveller’s site as gang threatened to cut off their fingers’

A gang of travelllers threatened to slice the fingers off two men with a machete as they demanded a £300,000 ransom, a court heard. Danny Bridges, 41, Mark Kavanagh, 34, Darren McClean, 37, Quincy Jarron Bramble, 33, and Lisa Marie Finnerty, 39, allegedly conspired to falsely imprison and blackmail the pair in July 2020. McClean and Bramble are also charged with kidnapping the two men. Irishman Cornelius Price, 40, originally from Gormanstown, Co Meath, is unable to stand trial with…