Elizabeth Byrne

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491 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 31 Aug

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The Case Of · UPDATE: The Two Intruders | A second sting and a cancer diagnosis · 22 May 2026 podcast

And then to his surprise, he found out his workmate had gone to the security people in their...

with their employer and was actually working for the police by then.

And that third person was an undercover police officer.

I just can't believe he got caught twice by undercover police officers, that he didn't spot it.

Yes, it was surprising that it was really not, it's not that long after the 1999 home invasion.

The thing that struck me is the level of violence that he'd intended to happen.

The person that was supposed to do that, who had the knuckle dusters and the cable ties, he'd told him, if you don't knock him out the first time, make sure you do knock him out the second time so he doesn't know what's going on.

during the hijacking and can't prevent anything.

So I just thought that was interesting that he had contemplated such a, it was a terrible level of violence.

And it was mentioned by the judges in the Court of Appeal when they increased his sentence.

Initially, it was a sentence to about two years, and that was increased to four.

Well, Joseph Focconi has liver cancer and he was undergoing quite tough treatment during the trial and that required him, I think it was one Wednesday every four weeks to go and have treatment.

But on a number of occasions, he was very unwell and

Twice he was taken from the court by an ambulance to be checked out at hospital.

And for many days during this trial, he was allowed to remain at the jail in a special room, listening to the trial from there.

And the jury could see him on an audiovisual link, but he wasn't there in person quite a lot.

Yeah.

How did he look, James?

Yes.

This was because Joseph Focconi had come to court and then had become unwell.

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