Notorious predator to be extradited here next week
ONE of Ireland’s most notorious predators is due to be extradited back to Ireland next week after spending almost a year fighting his return here.
Philip Murphy (39), from Clondalkin, Dublin, was arrested last July in London on foot of a European Arrest Warrant on charges of false imprisonment and sexual assault. He has been in custody ever since and fought his extradition all the way through the English court system until the High Court in London ordered his extradition on May 19.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the UK courts granted an extension to his removal from the country, but he must be returned to
Ireland by next Wednesday at the latest.
His extradition was first ordered by Westminister Magistrates Court on November 26, but he appealed this decision all the way to the High Court while remaining locked up in a London prison.
“He clearly really does not want to come home,” a source said last night.
One of the offences Murphy is wanted for is being investigated by Store Street gardaí and relates to an incident which happened in the Jervis Lane area of Dublin city centre on the night of February 25, 2016.
Murphy had only been released a day earlier from Arbour Hill Prison, where he served a 10-year sentence for falsely imprisoning a Polish woman in Clondalkin on June 7, 2008.
In the Jervis Lane incident, it is alleged he grabbed a woman from behind and put his arms around her before fleeing the area on foot. Nothing was stolen from the terrified woman.
The DPP directed charges in this case in March 2018, almost exactly two years after he was arrested.