BRADY’S FORMER PAL FACING EXTRADITION
Border businessman set for trial linked to garda murder
A FORMER pal of Aaron Brady could be back in Ireland within three weeks – to face charges connected to the probe into the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe.
Businessman James Flynn was yesterday told he had lost his fight against extradition from London and will be handed over to authorities within 17 days – unless he appeals the decision.
Flynn, 30, must lodge his appeal within the next week – and if he doesn’t he will be extradited to Dublin no later than 10 days after that deadline.
The South Armagh man has been in custody in London ever since the UK’S National Crime Agency arrested him in
August after they received an extradition request for him from Irish authorities.
The Director of Public Prosecutions here has ordered gardai to charge Flynn with the January 2013 armed robbery of the Lordship Credit Union outside Dundalk in Co Louth in which Detective Garda Donohoe, 41, was shot dead by Brady. The
DPP has further ordered that Flynn be charged with conspiring with Brady and others to commit burglaries between September 11, 2012 and January 23, 2013 – two days before the Garda’s murder.
Flynn was a close personal friend of Brady, 30, but they later had a falling out. He had objected to the extradition and claimed it should
not go ahead due to the passage of time – and because he is suffering from memory loss. He also claimed he was suffering from panic attacks.
But Westminster Magistrates Court ruled yesterday that the extradition should go ahead. Flynn is not to be charged with the murder of Det Garda Donohoe.
Brady, of New Road in Crossmaglen, Co Armagh, is the only person to have been charged with the murder of Det Gda Donohoe in the raid.
He was convicted in August 2020 after a trial heard he boasted about murdering the officer while he was living in New York and was jailed for 40 years for the capital murder of the officer.