High Court orders extradition to US of website accused

The High Court has ordered the extradition to the United States of a Wicklow man alleged to have been an administrator of the Silk Road website that dealt with illegal drugs and hacking software.

Gary Davis, aged 27, of Johnstown Court, Kilpedder, Co Wicklow, is wanted for trial by US authorities on charges of conspiracy to distribute narcotics, conspiracy to commit computer hacking and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

On a detailed judgment yesterday, Mr Justice Paul McDermott ruled that Mr Davis be surrendered to the US. The judge rejected all grounds of Mr Davis’s opposition to the request, including that his Constitutional rights and rights under the European Convention on Human Rights would be breached.