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Court orders extradition of alleged drug baron
In her ruling Justice Melrley Wood also ordered for Mr. McDermott to be kept in police custody awaiting his removal from the country.
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Explaining her decision the judge indicated there are sufficient grounds for the Brit to be extradited, disagreeing with arguments put out by defense lawyers.
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The fugitive man who is married to the daughter of immediate past governor of the Bank of Ghana is alleged to be a member of an organised crime syndicate from Liverpool responsible for a failed smuggling operation discovered by Border Force at Tilbury Docks in May 2013, when officers seized 400kg (881Ibs) of cocaine smuggled into the country in a container of frozen Argentinian beef.
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