TRIAL IN DUBLIN
Protestant extradited
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) BELFAST, June 15. A middle-aged man was shot and seriously injured early today as he sat in his car in a central Belfast street. Otherwise, Northern Ireland was relatively quiet today. There was no tangible sign of militant Protestants’ anger about yesterday’s extradition of a young Protestant to the Irish Republic to face a double murder charge. Robert Taylor, aged 19, a member of the paramilitary Ulster Defence Association, is now in Dublin, where he is expected to be tried on a charge of shooting an engaged couple in a lonely lane just inside the republic. He was whisked across the border soon after the House of Lords refused to hear his appeal against extradition. Before he was handed over, the authorities were assured that he would not face the death penalty, part of the reason for U.D.A. demonstrations in Belfast this week. The British Government is believed to be hopeful that the Irish will now hand over some of the 50 people in the Republic wanted in Northern Ireland on subversion charges. No suspects have been sent to the North for more than two years. >
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33253, 16 June 1973, Page 15
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