Brexit leaves company director wanted for tax fraud in "legal limbo", High Court told

A construction company director from Roscommon faces uncertainty over his extradition to the United Kingdom, the High Court heard on 4 July 2017. Thomas Joseph O'Connor, aged 49, was convicted in his absence at Blackfriars Crown Court of involvement in a £5 million tax fraud and sentenced to four-and-a-half years' imprisonment in January 2007. Following extradition proceedings begun in 2009, the Court of Appeal and…