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Former vet wanted to face bestiality charges will be extradited to UK

Summary

The High Court at Letterkenny has ordered the extradition of a 36-year-old man to face serious charges in the United Kingdom. Oliver Lown, formerly residing in Ipswich, Suffolk, is wanted by UK authorities on twelve counts, including alleged sexual activity with animals, making child abuse material, perverting the course of justice, and drugs offences. Mr Justice Paul Burns dismissed legal arguments against the extradition warrant, rejecting submissions that the European Arrest Warrant system was flawed following Brexit arrangements. The judge found the warrant and supporting documentation from UK prosecutors sufficiently clear and reliable. Mr Lown will be surrendered on all charges except one count of possessing extreme pornographic material, which has no equivalent Irish offence. He was remanded in custody for a minimum of fifteen days before his surrender within a subsequent ten-day period. A pending drugs-driving charge at Letterkenny District Court was deemed insufficient grounds to delay the extradition process.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: Former vet wanted to face bestiality charges will be extradited to UK. Charges or matters: offences including sexual penetration per vagina/anus by a person with a living animal, making indecent photographs of children and possessing extreme pornographic images portraying an act of intercourse /oral sex with a dead /alive animal. Procedural stage: charge_or_pretrial

When:

• January 13 Adjournment
• February 8, 2021 Incident
• April 4, 2019 Other
• August 29, 2019 Incident
• November 27, 2019 Incident
• 2013 and 2019 Other
• 2021-12-14 Publication

Why: Mr Kelly had further argued that the warrant was also "fundamentally flawed" because it was issued by Ipswich Magistrate Courts but signed off on by a Crown Court judge, which he said does not satisfy the criteria of "total clarity and unambiguousness" regarding warrants. CNI source report

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Drugs Stage Charge Or Pretrial

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Read the original CNI report