On-the-run sex offender hasn't been banished to 'homeless sex offenders' colony, court says

Martin Jude Wall, who was caught in a police sting when he tried to arrange a meeting with a 13-year-old girl for “indecent purposes”, was later arrested in Ireland in December 2020

Martin Jude Wall (pictured) fled the US after claiming a probation officer in Savannah, Georgia, told him to “go and live in a tent” when he complained the state’s strict parole restrictions governing sex offenders had left him without a job or anywhere to stay. File photo: Collins Courts

An on-the-run Irish sex offender who lost his appeal against extradition to the United States on Tuesday is being returned to custody and not to a “colony of homeless sex offenders”, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

Martin Jude Wall (47) fled the US after claiming a probation officer in Savannah, Georgia, told him to “go and live in a tent” when he complained the state’s strict parole restrictions governing sex offenders had left him without a job or anywhere to stay.