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Ex-MP's daughter held over attack | |
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The daughter of a former MP has been arrested and faces extradition proceedings over an IRA bomb attack on a British Army base in Germany. | |
Roisin McAliskey, 35, was detained in Coalisland, County Tyrone, on a European arrest warrant. | |
German authorities want to charge her over an IRA mortar bomb attack on an Army barracks at Osnabruck in 1996. | |
Ms McAliskey, the daughter of former Mid-Ulster MP Bernadette McAliskey, faced a similar action in 1998. | |
The then-Home Secretary Jack Straw decided at the time that she was too ill to beextradited. | |
She was pregnant at the time and was held in a special unit in Holloway prison. | |
At the time, the German attorney general said Ms McAliskey was still regarded as a suspect and called on the British government to take over the prosecution. | |
But two years later the Crown Prosecution Service said there was not enough evidence for her to face trial in the United Kingdom. | |
Police officers including detectives from the Extradition and InternationalMutual Assistance Unit were involved in the operation to arrest her on Monday. | |
She will appear at Belfast Recorders Court for extradition proceedings. | She will appear at Belfast Recorders Court for extradition proceedings. |