Kerry lawyer accused of people smuggling for trying to rescue refugees from sea back in court next month

Seán Binder answers journalists' questions outside the court of Mytilene in the island of Lesvos on November 18, 2021. File picture: Manolis Lagoutaris/AFP/Getty

A Kerry humanitarian and lawyer is due back in court in January on people smuggling charges after trying to rescue refugees from drowning in the sea.

Seán Binder is one of 24 defendants charged in connection with efforts to save refugees from drowning off the Greek island of Lesvos in 2018.