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 gardai following their mistaken arrest in relation to 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 Sergeant Daniel Barry and Garda Jonathan Petrie as well as the Garda Commissioner and the State.