Man faces extradition after conviction for children's deaths in Hungary

11/11/2009 - 13:51:29

Fresh extradition proceedings have been issued against an Irish accountant who knocked down and killed two children while speeding in Budapest in Hungary nine years ago.

Ciaran Tobin was arrested in Dublin last night, 18 months after the Supreme Court refused to agree to his surrender to the Hungarian authorities on an earlier warrant.

Mr Tobin was driving at between 75 and 80 kilometres an hour when his car mounted the footpath kiling a five-year-old boy and a two-year-old girl in April 2000.

The senior life assurance manager with Irish Life did not turn up for his trial and was convicted in his absence by a Budapest court. He was sentenced to three years for negligence causing death.

Hungary then sought his extradition to serve the time, but this was refused by the Irish courts because it found that the father of two had not fled the country.

However the laws have since changed and he may yet be extradited. The High Court was informed today that he was arrested at his home in Sutton Dublin last night by gardaí following the issuing of a fresh European arrest warrant by Hungary in September.

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