FBI identifies man who had passports in names of babies who died in the 50s

Interpol are also investigating the man who is being held in Cork Prison

The man referred to as “Mr Morris" has been in custody since his arrest at the passport office on South Mall, Cork, on September 14.
File picture: Denis Minihane

Mystery surrounding the identity of a man in custody for several weeks who allegedly applied for passports in the names of babies who died in the 1950s may have been solved, a detective revealed today.

“We believe we now have a positive identification for this gentleman from an FBI arrest record in 1970. It only came to us at the end of last week,” Detective Garda Padraic Hanley of the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation said on Tuesday.