Irishman agrees to Dutch extradition over killing and dismemberment of known criminal

An Irish man has agreed to be extradited to the Netherlands where he is appealing his convictions relating to the killing of a known criminal whose body was chopped up and dumped in a canal.

Detective Garda Eoin Kane told Caroline Cummings BL for the State that he arrested Kenneth Brunell, formerly of Palmerstown in Dublin, today on foot of a European Arrest Warrant issued by the Office of Public Prosecutions in the Netherlands.