Guilty verdicts in kidnapping trial
Denmark - Four Chinese immigrants have been found guilty by the Lyngby District Court of kidnapping a five-year-old boy last April.
Oliver Chaaning, the son of a restaurant-owning family, was torn from his mother’s arms as she picked him up from his nursery school. He was then reportedly blindfolded and gagged before being stuffed into a suitcase while the kidnappers drove away with him.
The four later demanded a €700,000 ransom, but police were able to trace the kidnappers to a dormitory in Hvidovre using the telephone calling card the kidnappers had used to place the call to demand the ransom.
The child was later freed by police SWAT teams, dressed as carpenters, after 26 hours in captivity.
During court testimony, the kidnappers, aged between 24 and 30, cited gambling debts as the motive for the kidnapping.
