Hunger-striker to get documents back

GARDAI are to return personal documents seized from hunger-striking Irish woman Kathryn Nelson during raids carried out as part of money laundering investigations two years ago.

Arrangements were made by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) yesterday to dispatch to Ms Nelson’s residence in the Isle of Man a number of items, including several expired passports detailing her international travels over many years.

Ms Nelson, 57, who is originally from Athy, Co Kildare, began a hunger strike two and a half weeks ago to protest her innocence of involvement in the money laundering operation suspected to have followed the £26.5 million (€39m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast in December 2004.