High Court adjourns request to extradite Wharrie

THE High Court adjourned an extradition request by the British authorities for 48-year-old Englishman Perry Wharrie, who was jailed for his role in a €400 million cocaine operation in Co Cork.

London-born Perry Brian Wharrie, with an address at Pyrles Lane, Loughton, Essex, is being sought in relation to the 1988 armed robbery of a Securicor van at Barclays Bank at Hemel Hempstead in Britain during which a police officer was shot dead. He received a life sentence for the crime.

Earlier this month Wharrie, along with Martin Wanden, aged 45, and Joe Daly, aged 41, received lengthy jail sentences for their involvement in an operation to smuggle €400m worth of cocaine which was found in Dunlough bay, Mizen Head, on July 2, 2007.