Terrorist Suspect Freed Twice on Same Technicality
A Belfast-born woman wanted in Britain on suspicion of three terrorist murders disappeared Sunday after a weekend in which she was freed because of an invalid extradition warrant, recaptured in a high-speed car chase, then freed again on the same technicality.
Justice Minister Alan Dukes said that Irish police cannot start looking for Evelyn Glenholmes again until legally correct warrants arrive from London.
Glenholmes, 29, is wanted on three counts of murder, attempted murder and bombings in London in 1981 and for suspected membership in the outlawed Irish Republican Army.
Police also want to interview her in connection with the IRA bombing of a Brighton hotel in 1984 that narrowly missed Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Irish police arrested Glenholmes on March 12 in a Dublin suburb on the basis of nine British extradition warrants, but on Saturday she was freed by a judge on grounds that the warrants were not properly sworn.
This started a bizarre four-hour episode in which police, shooting in the air, pursued Glenholmes through Dublin, finally re-arresting her in a downtown store.
But when they took her back to court, a second judge refused to jail her pending the arrival of the fresh warrant.
She later dropped from sight.
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