MISS EVELYN GLENHOLMES: EXTRADITION WARRANTS (Hansard, 26 March 1986)

§ Lord Glenarthur

I understand from the Director of Public Prosecutions that the changes requested were as follows:—

(a) The offences and the court

I understand from the Director of Public Prosecutions that the descriptions of offences in the original warrants followed those in the indictment against two other defendants who had at that time already been committed for trial in England accused of the same offences. The wording on the original warrants had therefore already been lodged with and accepted by the Central Criminal Court. The Irish authorities, however, advised that the addresses at which the alleged offences took place should be given in full: for example, the number at which Debenham's store in Oxford Street has its premises was not given, nor was there a precise address given in respect of the arms cache found at Pangbourne, Oxfordshire. They also requested that the Central Criminal Court should be identified as that for England and Wales.

The Irish authorities raised no objection to the spelling of Miss Glenholmes' name. She was described in the original warrants as "Evelyn Glenholmes" of "no fixed abode", those being the only details which could be supplied when the warrants were applied for. The director's office were later told that Miss Glenholmes had two other forenames, and that she had at one time lived at a particular address in Belfast. At the request of the Irish authorities the warrants were amended to describe the accused as "Mary Elizabeth Evelyn Glenholmes"; the former Belfast address was also given. I understand, however, that in the course of the district court hearing in Dublin last week Miss Glenholmes said that her full name was simply "Evelyn Glenholmes", and the warrants obtained on 22nd and 24th March reflect that.

The above changes requested by the Irish authorities were of course incorporated in the warrants dated 6th November 1984 which the court found defective on 22nd March.