Kieran Farrell v Criminal Courts of Justice, Dublin
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | MR JUSTICE CALVERT-SMITH |
| Judgment Date | 08 March 2012 |
| Neutral Citation | [2012] EWHC 676 (Admin) |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court) |
| Docket Number | CO/279/2012 |
| Date | 08 March 2012 |
[2012] EWHC 676 (Admin)
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION
THE ADMINISTRATIVE COURT
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand
London WC2A 2LL
Mr Justice Calvert-smith
CO/279/2012
The Appellant appeared in person
Ms Hannah Pye (instructed by the CPS) appeared on behalf of the Respondent
This is an appeal against the order for the extradition of this appellant to Ireland made by District Judge Coleman on 5 January of this year at Westminster Magistrates' Court. The European Arrest Warrant was issued on 26 October 2011 and certified by the Serious Organised Crime Agency on 22 November 2011.
The appellant, Mr Farrell, was arrested on 5 January and the hearing took place, as I have said, on the same day. The appellant was represented at the hearing, and while he did not consent to extradition, no bar was raised on his behalf to that extradition.
The warrant is an accusation warrant and alleges first, that the appellant made a hoax bomb call to the police in Ireland in July 2005. There are also three offences, all committed in the same context if not perhaps even on the same day, allegedly, of threatening to kill his former partner, threatening to kill his former partner's daughter in a different telephone call on the same day, and threatening to damage property in a text message sent to another member of his former partner's family.
The appellant appears in person. His grounds of appeal, which I summarise, state that he has mental problems exacerbated by a drink problem, for both of which he has received treatment since his arrival in this country, that his current situation in custody awaiting extradition has prompted thoughts of suicide, and that he has already been arrested in connection with the hoax bomb call and bailed in 2006, since when he has heard nothing. In respect of that contention, the warrant states that he was indeed arrested on 1 December 2006 in respect of the offence allegedly committed in July 2005, but that a summons was issued in respect of that offence which was served personally upon him and required his attendance at court in Dublin on 13 December 2007, when he failed to attend.
Mr Farrell has repeated his grounds to me in person today, and explained that his particular concern is that, having left the Irish Army, he had psychiatric problems which were not properly attended to in Ireland, and that he took to drinking too much, the result of which in part has been the four offences for which he is now wanted back in Ireland, and that he came to this country in 2007 following working as a pipe-layer in Ireland and then...
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