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2020 Lisa Smith To Face Terrorist Financing Lorry Driver Extradited To
Britain Faces Charges In
29th, Charge In Court Essex Container Deaths C

July nallegedmemberofso- Friday but surety was not She was also ordered to

called Islamic State who
| Ais a former member of present. obey a curfew and has to President & Founding
Publisher
EXAMINER the Irish Defense Forces, is fac- client has been signing on at 7am. Paddy McCarthy
remain indoors from 8pm to
Mr Corrigan said his
Editor
She has been banned
ing an additional charge of ter-
her local Garda station for
Grahame Curtis
the past seven months.
rorist financing, a court has
from accessing the internet
An Irish lorry driver has been
“She has complied (with)
IRISH heard. very stringent conditions,” or using social media. extradited to the UK to face charges Associate Publisher
Marc-Yves Tumin
Lisa Smith, from Co
Smith, who wore an
over the deaths of 39 Vietnamese
Louth, has been charged
Islamic dress and hijab with
he said.
with membership of an As part of strict bail condi- her face uncovered in court, migrants who were found in a con- News Editor
David Carter
unlawful organization under tions set by the courts, Smith sat silently throughout her tainer in Essex. Arts & Entertainment Editor
2005 terror legislation. must reside at an address in brief appearance. Eamonn Harrison, 23, of Brad Balfour
The 38-year-old appeared the north east of the country Judge Grainne Malone Mayobridge, County Down,
at Dublin District Court on and sign on at a Garda sta- adjourned the case until July Northern Ireland, is alleged to have Sales Director
John O’Rourke
Friday. tion twice daily from 10am- 31st and remanded Smith on driven the lorry trailer to the Belgian
The court heard Smith 1pm and 3pm-6pm. bail for one more week. C port of Zeebrugge before it sailed to Classified Advertising
faces an additional charge of Purfleet in England. John O’Rourke
terrorist financing. This Harrison faces 39 counts of Art Director
relates to an alleged offense manslaughter and one count of con- Heidi Gross Kelley
within the Irish state in 2015 spiracy to assist unlawful immigra- Contributors
in the sum of 800 euros. tion. Joe Kavanagh, C.S. O’Brien, Mike
Fitzpatrick, Seamus Kelleher, John
Smith was in court on The bodies of the Vietnamese Mooney, Neil McDaid, Aine Fox, Sean
Friday to be served the book nationals were discovered on an McCarthy, Mike Bowen, Marc-Yves
of evidence but her defense industrial estate in Grays shortly Tumin, Jack McGrath, Charley Brady,
Patrick Hurley, Catherine Wylie, Alicia
solicitor Peter Corrigan said after the container arrived in Purfleet Colon, Jason Gallagher, Jackie Cahill, Bill
he was seeking a one-week on a ferry in the early hours of Daly, Jim McKeon
adjournment. October 23rd last year. Contributing Photographers
Mr Corrigan said Smith Among the men, women and Leo Doyle, Danny McCabe, Roger
has been denied her funda- children were 10 teenagers, two of Wong
mental right to a jury trial. them 15-year-old boys. Circulation
The court heard Smith An inquest heard that their med- John Philip, Manager
was to have the book of evi- ical cause of death was asphyxia and North East - Paul Hamrock
dence served on her on hyperthermia – a lack of oxygen and West Coast - Jim Clement
overheating – in an enclosed space. Historian
The lorry’s driver, Maurice
O’Dwyer & Bernstien, LLP Robinson, 25, who took the contain- Events Consultant
Joseph Walsh
Attorneys-at-Law er from the port where it arrived in Timothy Murphy
Essex, admitted 39 counts of
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