'My nightmare at extradition from US over brawl in bar 43 years ago'

Extra.ie ^ | 3/27/2023 | Garreth MacNamee

[crusty old prospector]

No statute of limitations?

[nwrep]

The Irishman is the Florida man of the UK.

[TLI]

British police who had been seeking Mr McGrath for more than four decades.

Forty years to prep the case and promptly lost.

No wonder they are being overrun with muzz.

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[simpson96]

US marshals raided his house and arrested him.

The Marshal Service was acting on the behalf of British police who had been seeking Mr McGrath for more than four decades.

Ah, priorities.

Nothing else worse going on for either group to see to, it seems.

[DesertRhino]

Usually statute of limitations in most laws of that sort provides that time -stops- when you flee the jurisdiction. Otherwise it turns statute of limitations into a game of hide and seek. It is actually meant that the state must bring charges in a timely manner, not that you hid well enough.

[crusty old prospector]

For a poke in the nose? Don’t they have a few mohammedans to follow around?

[simpson96]

Or knives to ban, for all the citizenry.

[o-n-money]

No statute of limitations?

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If he was charged at the time-No.

[gopno1]

That’s correct. It’s called “tolling” the statute.

[Az Joe]

“Why do the Irish always fight amongst themselves?

“There are no other worthy opponents!”

[Repeal 16-17]

Mr McGrath told the BBC he was just 21 when he got involved in a drunken row with another group of young men.

He said he fled to a nearby pub. However, he was not charged in relation to that fight. Instead, British prosecutors alleged he was involved with a group of men who attacked a policeman breaking the officer's nose in the process - something Mr McGrath denies.

After all that effort to capture this man and the Brits screw-up over which police officer he punched. What a bonehead mistake.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I think the statute of limitations no longer exists under the Biden occupation. I’ve been routinely getting letters in the mail from debt collectors saying I owe $2000 from a Wells Fargo loan back in 2006. When I mail them proof it was paid off it ends up in the hands of another debt collector and the process repeats. Never mind that it was paid off, the fact that it’s 17 years old and well past the statute of limitations is completely ignored.

[Dr. Sivana]

. I’ve been routinely getting letters in the mail from debt collectors saying I owe $2000 from a Wells Fargo loan back in 2006.

Unless you left the country or did something else to toll the statute of limitations (or if it was a federally guaranteed student loan), the debt is no longer enforceable. Wells Fargo probably sold it for pennies to an agency. But, just because the debt is unenforceable doesn't mean they cannot ask. The best thing you can do is just ignore those dunning notices. They mean nothing. If they meant something, they would wind up on a credit report. They do not, UNLESS you do something stupid like pay them a trifling amount, that resets the clock.

[grey_whiskers]

YOU win the thread.

[crusty old prospector]

I guess you should resign to the fact that you are a scofflaw.

[Gay State Conservative]

IIRC when you “flee the jurisdiction” the “clock” stops.

[logi_cal869]

He’s a foreign national. Nothing in the article about American citizenship.

This is on the Brits and a major failure on the part of the Irish government for not looking out for one of its own.

One can only hope that if the tables were turned - an American arrested abroad for extradition to a 3rd country - that our government would be there.

I don’t harbor said hope.

[kiryandil]

The Kingdom of Transgendria.

[alexander_busek]

The Marshal Service was acting on the behalf of British police who had been seeking Mr McGrath for more than four decades.

How could it have been so difficult to find a pugnacious Irishman?

I mean: Couldn't the police simply put out a A.P.B. for a "brawling Irishman?"

Regards,