Brazilian judge rejects Kevin Mallon bid

A supreme court judge in Brazil has dismissed a request to suspend the court hearing of Kevin Mallon, the THG executive arrested on the eve of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro last year.

Both Kevin Mallon and former OCI president Pat Hickey are due to appear in court at the end of November in Rio de Janeiro.

Franklin Gomes, Mr Mallon’s Sao Paulo-based lawyer had asked the supreme court in Brasilia to null last year’s decision by a Rio de Janeiro court to accept charges against the Dublin man, claiming “evident illegal duress”; that the local court had “ratified the receipt of the charges without addressing any of the defence arguments”.