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McGuinness in new plea over prisoner (UTV)
The deputy First Minister has raised the case of a republican prisoner who is seriously ill in Maghaberry with the Irish Government.
Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness is appealing for them to use their influence to ensure Brendan Lillis is released immediately.
He said: “I made it clear to the Irish Govenment that the use of prisoner licencing and the revoking of licences on occasion by the British Secretary of State amounts to internment without trial.
“It is this mechanism that sees the further detention of Brendan Lillis and is undoubtedly a complicating factor in this case.”
Justice Minister David Ford has resisted pressure from Mr Lillis’s family and Sinn Féin for him to be released.
The 59-year-old is in prison because his political licence was revoked when he was re-arrested in connection with a tiger kidnapping – but authorities say he is unfit to stand trial.
The west Belfast man was previously behind bars in the 1970s for explosives charges.