Police tortured me, says man falsely jailed for train robbery

Osgur Breatnach, one of three people jailed in Ireland for the 1976 Sallins heist, claims his confession was wrongly obtained

It was one of the most audacious heists in Irish history when a 17-strong armed gang posing as police held up the night mail train at Sallins, County Kildare, snatching the equivalent in today's money of 1m in cash.

The IRA would later twice claim responsibility for the 1976 robbery but the lives of the three men wrongly convicted and sentenced to between nine and 12 years for a crime they did not commit were ruined.