Luca Gambucci and his brother Marco from Italy at the Four Courts last year. Photograph: Collins Courts
The Court of Appeal (CoA) has dismissed an appeal against awards of €95,000 each to two Italian brothers who a jury found were maliciously prosecuted by gardaí following their mistaken arrest over an alleged handbag theft in Dublin.
Marco Gambucci, who runs a real estate business in Sardinia, and his brother Luca, a public servant in Perugia, sued Pearse Street, Dublin-based then Garda, now Sgt Daniel Barry, and Garda Jonathan Petrie as well as the Garda Commissioner and the State.
The brothers w
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