Nelson hopes letters to Ahern will clear her name

AN Irish woman on hunger strike to protest her innocence of involvement in laundering money from the Northern Bank raid was in correspondence with the Minister for Foreign Affairs weeks before the robbery.

Nelson hopes letters to Ahern will clear her name

Kathryn Nelson said the letters between herself and Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern while she was based in Bulgaria in late 2004 made nonsense of suggestions she was engaged in activities that were in any way linked to criminality.

“If I was about to rob a bank or get involved in money laundering, I would hardly be advertising my presence to a senior Government minister, pinpointing my location and telling him about the kind of business I was doing,” she said.

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