Brothers awarded €95,000 each over mistaken arrest for Grafton Street handbag theft A High Court jury found the Italian siblings been maliciously prosecuted for an incident in May 2008 https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/05/03/italian-brothers-awarded-95000-after-they-were-mistakenly-arrested-for-grafton-street-handbag-theft/ Two brothers have been awarded €95,000 each by a High Court jury who found they had been maliciously prosecuted following their mistaken arrest in relation to an alleged handbag theft in Dublin city centre 16 years ago. Italian Marco Gambucci, who runs a real estate business in Sardinia, and his brother Luca, a public servant in Perugia, sued Pearse Street in Dublin-based gardaí Daniel Barry and Jonathan Petrie as well as the Garda Commissioner and the State. They were living in Dublin at the time of the incident on May 18th, 2008, but have since returned to Italy. The court heard they were arrested when gardaí were investigating an attempted ha...