The Supreme Court has today cleared the way for the extradition to the US of an Irish businessman to serve a sentence for sexually assulting a young boy during the 1990s.
The court, with the Chief Justice Mr Justice John Murray presiding and sitting with Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns and Mr Justice Hugh Geoghegan rejected Simon Murphy's appeal against a High Court order for his extradition.
Muprhy had left New York in 1998 after pleading guilty to one count of sexual assault of a boy less than 11 years old during the mid 1990s.
In his appeal, Murphy, Rosetown, Arthurstown, New Ross, Co Wexford, argued the High Court had not fully taken into account that he was allegedly coerced into admitting the charge of sexual assault as part of a plea bargaining process.
That argument was dismissed by the Supreme Court.
