Extradition of company director to UK over £5m tax fraud postponed “on humanitarian grounds”

A construction company director from Roscommon has secured a four-week postponement of his extradition to the United Kingdom on humanitarian grounds. Thomas Joseph O'Connor, aged 49, is wanted in England for his involvement in a £5 million tax fraud. He was sentenced in absentia at Blackfriars Crown Court in London in January 2007 to four and a half years imprisonment. Following conviction, O'Connor failed to attend…