Ms.McAliskey-Germans will not appeal -- Stormont Watch

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Date Posted: Thu, Dec 13 2007, 21:36:39 PST
Author: From IPSC Board
Subject: Ms.McAliskey-Germans will not appeal

Great News for Roisin McAliskey Germans will not appeal
Posted on December 12, 2007 at 10:44:44 AM by Sean Mac

Germans will not appeal McAliskey ruling

German authorities who wanted to try a woman for a 1996 IRA attack in the country will not appeal against a ruling that she should not be extradited.

Last month Roisin McAliskey from Co Tyrone was told by Belfast High Court that she was free from the threat of legal proceedings over the alleged attempted murder of British soldiers at an Army base at Osnabruck.

She was arrested at her home in Coalisland last May. A previous extradition order was set aside seven years ago on medical grounds.

A spokesman for the Northern Ireland Court Service said: "The German authorities have notified the court that they will not be lodging an appeal against the order made by the Recorder of BelfastJudge Burgesson November 232007that Roisin McAliskey should not be extradited."

Her lawyers have argued that to extradite her would be an abuse of process as the previous application failed.

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Judge Burgess refused the application by the German authorities last monthadding it "would be oppressive because of the passage of time".

The judge determined that Ms McAliskey believed the threat of extradition was behind her from the time in 1998 when then Home Secretary Jack Straw announced in the House of Commons that he was refusing to extradite her on medical grounds.

The judge said this was confirmed in Ms McAliskey`s mind by a statement made in the House of Commons in 2000 by Attorney General Lord Williams that there were no grounds for instituting proceedings against her in the UK.

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