A man who fled the UK after a fight in 1980 is acquitted after extradition proceedings 41 years later.
Decades after moving to the US, retired construction worker Rory McGrath was extradited to the UK to face trial for a 41-year-old crime. Eventually he was found not guilty.
The story began in March 1980 when McGrath, an Irish-British national born in Leeds, was out drinking with friends. The 21-year-old, by his own admission, became involved in a drunken fight between two groups of young men. In his telling, he fled to a nearby pub when police arrived. "I'm not getting involved with the police," he remembers thinking.
"All my life, since I can remember, [I was] constantly harassed by the English police, so I knew it wasn't going to be a good outcome." The first he knew of any extradition request was the US Marshals' raid in 2021. But events had been set in motion six years earlier. Under US law, people facing extradition are typically held in prison, except when there are "special circumstances" permitting their release. After McGrath's arrest in May 2021, a judge granted bail, and said he presented no real flight risk or danger to the public.
According to local media, after McGrath was acquitted, the judge told jurors that he did not know why the case had been brought after so many years: "We have worse things to deal with, if I can put it that way," he said.When McGrath was arrested in the US, courts in England and Wales were experiencing unprecedented delays and a backlog of cases that had grown during the pandemic.
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