Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/06/07
By: Elane Hou, Hsiao Po-wen and Frances Huang
Taipei, June 7 (CNA) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Friday that it will work
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with the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) to study the possibility of appealing a ruling by the high court in the U.K. a day earlier denying an application by Taiwan for the extradition of British fugitive Zain Dean.
On June 6, the Scottish High Court of Judiciary ruled in a 2-1 vote that Dean cannot be extradited to Taiwan to serve a sentence.
MOFA expressed regret over the ruling, saying that while it will consult with the MOJ, it will also ask its representative office in the U.K. to contact prosecutors in Scotland to determine what further action can be taken.
Dean was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison by the Taiwan High Court in July 2012 after being found guilty in a March 2010 hit and run incident in which newspaper deliveryman, Huang Chun-teh (黃俊德) died. [FULL STORY]