Tug-of-love grandparents win extradition battle
A couple today defeated an attempt by US authorities to extradite them from Ireland for allegedly kidnapping their grandson.
Tim and Ethel Blake, from Cobh in Cork, were locked in an international tug-of-love battle with their daughter Serena Benwell when they took her son, Ben, aged nine, from his home in Winthrop Harbour, north of Chicago, in July 2004.
