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Jun 2021
25m 13s

2. Thieves in the Night

Bbc Radio 5 Live
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A cold and stormy night in Ireland is made even more terrifying by the presence of armed and masked men.

“We’ve come to take Shergar, we want £2,000,000”

Kidnappings were not unusual in Ireland at this time, except most of the time it was humans that were taken... some never came back.

Who would want a horse? A stallion that no longer raced?

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