Couple await extradition decision

A couple accused of kidnapping their grandson in the US and bringing him to Ireland will learn today if they are to be extradited to face charges by the American authorities.

Tim and Ethel Blake, both 60, were locked in an international tug-of-love battle with their daughter Serena Benwell when they took her then nine-year-old boy from his new home in Winthrop Harbour, north of Chicago in July 2004.