[crusty old prospector]

No statute of limitations?

[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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[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.

[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.

[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,

[Roccus]

Illegal alien?