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QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION
ADMINISTRATIVE COURT
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JAMES PATRICK GERALD FLYNN | Applicant | |
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THE HIGH COURT, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND | Respondent |
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MS A. BOSTOCK appeared on behalf of the Respondent.
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MR JUSTICE CHAMBERLAIN
(i) The matters for which the applicant was sought were serious, in particular the robbery, which involved an ambush undertaken by five people, and which resulted, as I have said, in the shooting dead of a police officer, and the holding of a second officer at gunpoint.
(ii) In 2020, Brady was convicted by a jury in Dublin of the murder of the officer. In that connection, Ms Bostock, who appears for the Irish Judicial Authority before me, points out that the appellant now knows that the evidence, which was circumstantial as it is in respect of the appellant, was sufficient to convict Brady.
(iii) According to the Irish Authorities, Mr Flynn was best friends with Brady and in his company on an almost daily basis in January 2013. Mr Flynn was interviewed in February 2013 and gave a statement to the police in which he is said to have provided a false alibi for Brady.
(iv) The warrant details features of the case and evidence against Mr Flynn, which gave rise to very substantial risk and incentive, that Mr Flynn would seek to evade and avoid accountability for these offences by absconding and failing to surrender.
(v) Mr Flynn was young and mobile and had relocated several times in the past, including to the United States, of which he is a citizen. He went there in 2003, shortly after speaking to the Gardai. He came back to Northern Ireland in 2017 and has since relocated to England, though this, I am told, was only a few days before his arrest under this warrant. There were indications that his wife and young son were also mobile.
(vi) Mr Flynn relocated to the United States in April 2013, just two months after giving a statement in relation to the robbery of which his best friend, Brady, was suspected. Brady also relocated to the United States as the two other individuals, one of them Mr Flynn's brother, who went there via Australia, and are said to be implicated in the conduct covered by the warrant. A third individual sought for the offence was the individual with whom Mr Flynn said in his 2013 statement he had spent the day of the robbery.