Passports of Dubai suspects ‘do not exist’

NO records exist of the three alleged Irish nationals Dubai police have claimed were members of a group that assassinated a senior Hamas official last month.

The Department of Foreign Affairs said yesterday that the trio of alleged Irish passport holders identified yesterday in Dubai as Gail Folliard, Evan Dennings and Kevin Daveron do not appear in passport records.

The passport numbers issued by Dubai authorities also are believed to be counterfeits, as they have the wrong number of digits and contain no letters. Several newspapers in the region published the trio’s passport numbers yesterday.