Extradition of IRA Escapee Is Delayed

Lawyers for an escaped Irish Republican Army convict won a court ruling delaying his extradition to Northern Ireland, where he faces a life sentence for participating in the killing of a British soldier in 1980. Detectives were driving Angelo Fusco, 43, to Ireland’s border with the British-linked province when a Dublin High Court justice ruled to block the extradition. Fusco, who was arrested Monday night, was a member of a four-man IRA unit that ambushed and killed the British army commando in Belfast, the Northern Ireland capital. He and his comrades all escaped the day before their 1981 convictions. Fusco was arrested in Ireland three years ago but went missing again after being granted bail during a legal fight against extradition.