10-year delay in seeking suspect’s arrest warrant

A barrister at the High Court yesterday accused the German federal authorities of “culpable negligence” for waiting for more than 10 years to pursue an arrest warrant for a man suspected of involvement in a Provisional IRA bombing.

Remy Farrell said that the Germans had engaged in “finger-pointing” at the gardaí and the Irish State and failed to explain why they did not act on information given to them by gardaí back in 2005.

Mr Farrell was representing James Anthony Oliver Albert Corry, aged 46, who was arrested in Killorglin, Co Kerry, last October on foot of a European Arrest Warrant issued by German authorities.