2015-03-19
Two convicted murderers must await outcome of appeal against order to return them to serve life sentences in UK
Stage: Appeal
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; Additional copy from submissions by counsel for both men Craig, with an address in Rathcoole, South Dublin, was convicted and jailed for life for the murder of a man in a park in Blackburn on November 3, 1973. Balmer (62), with a last address in Cornwall, England, was also sentenced to life imprisonment in 1984 for attacking and killing a woman in her home on the evening of July 28 1983 in Devon, England.