Call for Conroy to intervene in hunger striker case

THE Isle of Man parliament is to raise the issue of Irish hunger striker Kathryn Nelson with the Garda Commissioner.

Manx home affairs minister, Martyn Quayle, has stated he will write to Commissioner Noel Conroy to advise him of Ms Nelson’s situation and ask him to intervene.

Co Kildare-born Ms Nelson, 57, who has lived in the Isle of Man for the past 18 months, began a hunger strike a fortnight ago to protest her innocence of involvement in laundering money from the £26.5 million (€39m) Northern Bank robbery.