2014-10-07 · Dublin
Convicted Murderer who escaped from English prison and fled here given leave to appeal extradition
High Court judge Mr Justice John Edwards granted leave to appeal to the Supreme Court for two convicted murderers facing extradition to the UK. The applicants are Anthony Craig, 66, and Michael Anthony Balmer, 62. Craig was convicted in 1973 of murdering a man in Blackburn, England, and escaped from an English prison before being arrested in…