The 67-year-old is wanted over the murder of two UDR soldiers in Enniskillen in 1972
Lance Corporal Alfred Johnston and Private James Eames were killed when a device exploded in a vehicle they were checking on the Irvinestown Road in the Co Fermanagh town.
Tony McGillicuddy BL, for Mr Downey, told the court he will make an application for a certificate for leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal next Wednesday.on foot of a European Arrest Warrant. He told detectives he believed “it was the DUP and not the DPP” who decided to prosecute him. Ms Justice Donnelly said that for an extradition to be refused on the basis of an amnesty or pardon, the person has to place “cogent evidence before the court that such an amnesty or pardon existed”.
Mr Orange had submitted it was “uncontradicted” that there were “credible attempts” to “fabricate” an image of a suspect for the Hyde Park bombing. The image of the suspect was said to have been created using independent eye-witness identification.
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