Irish detectives are to fly to South Africa in 10 days’ time to bring double murder suspect Ruth Lawrence back to Dublin to face trial.
Clontarf woman Lawrence, 42, has already spent six-and-a-half months behind bars in a hell hole jail after her arrest last year. The high-profile prisoner will be released into the custody of a team of Gardai officers in Johannesburg then flown home.
It has taken since last October 4 when Lawrence was arrested in a dawn raid by the elite South African police unit The Hawks to extradite her. Spokesman for the South African Department of Justice Mr Chrispin Phiri confirmed: “The Minister Mr Ronald Lamola has approved extradition.