Brexit prevents extradition of company director wanted over £5m tax fraud, lawyers to argue

A construction company director from Roscommon facing extradition to the United Kingdom over a £5 million tax fraud will argue before the Court of Appeal that Brexit prevents his removal from the State. Thomas Joseph O'Connor, aged 49, was sentenced in his absence to four-and-a-half years imprisonment following conviction at Blackfriars Crown Court in 2007. He returned to Ireland without attending his sentencing…