Escaped IRA Killer Faces Extradition

Anthony Kelly, a convicted IRA killer who escaped from Northern Ireland’s top-security prison in a mass breakout 14 years ago, was arrested by Irish detectives at his home in Letterkenny, 10 miles from Northern Ireland, where he had been living openly. He was escorted to a Dublin court, where Northern Ireland police filed papers seeking his extradition. Legal battles to extradite Irish Republican Army figures from the Irish Republic to Northern Ireland have long soured Anglo-Irish relations. Kelly, 36, got a life sentence for a 1980 killing of a Northern Ireland reserve police officer.