MS Bernadette McAliskey, the former Mid-Ulster MP and civil rights campaigner, yesterday denounced the German prosecutor's case against her daughter Roisin as "seriously flawed" and insisted there was "extensive" alibi evidence to prove she was in Northern Ireland on the date of the IRA bombing of a British army barracks in Germany.
At a press conference in the House of Commons, Ms McAliskey stressed that her daughter had not been questioned by the RUC about the Osnabruck bombing following her arrest last November, and said the only evidence against her was two fingerprints on a piece of Cellophane.
Earlier, Ms McAliskey (25) was again too ill to attend an extradition hearing at Bow Street Magistrates' Court. She is currently on bail, residing at the Maudsley Hospital in south London, and is suffering from post-natal depression following the birth of her daughter, Loinnir, last month. The magistrate, Mrs Lorraine Morgan, adjourned the hearing until July 8th.