Essex News & Investigations

TOP SECRET: The hearing took place in private at Westminster Magistrates Court (IG) IRELAND has dropped an extradition request to the UK for a suspected drug trafficker after it was shrouded in secrecy, prompting suggestions of a "supergrass deal." In a secret hearing in Chambers at Westminster Magistrates Court, the 29-year-old Irish man, whose name cannot be disclosed, was told the extradition request from his native country had been withdrawn. Referred to only as Mr AS in