Extradition to Germany over chair leg raid rap has ruined my life...

Man has until July to get affairs in order

- PAUL HEALY

A MAN facing extradition to Germany over an aggravated robbery he allegedly committed nearly 30 years ago has claimed: "My life has been ruined." 

Liam Patrick Daly, 50, who this paper tracked down in Co Wexford, was this week ordered by the High Court in Dublin to be extradited to Germany where he's wanted over allegedly trying to strike a man with a wooden chair leg and committing robbery in a Berlin takeaway in 1994.

But approached by us following the ruling this week, Mr Daly said he can't fight extradition anymore and claimed that his life had been ruined over the whole ordeal.

"My life has been ruined over this. I lost my life in England and everything," he told us.

On Monday, Mr Daly's defence barrister Willie Hughes BL argued that it would be "unjust and oppressive" to extradite him for what they termed a "stupid act" by a "very drunk man in a takeaway in 1994", adding that he was incapable of actually carrying out the alleged offence.