[2025] EWHC 1956 (Admin)

Fecha: 28-Jul-2025

II - Chronology

II - Chronology

The appellant was arrested on AW1on 17 January 2024 and produced at Westminster Magistrates' Court for an initialhearing on 18 January 2024. He did not consent to his extradition and the proceedings were opened and adjourned to a final hearing date. He was the arrested on AW2on 26April 2024 and appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court for an initial hearing on the same day after being arrested in the cells at court on that day. Once more, he did not consent to his extradition and the case was opened an adjourned to a final hearing date. He has been remanded in custody throughout the proceedings.

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The chronology can be confusing as several relevant events overlap. To assist, the sequence of events has been helpfully set out in a table by Mr Hepburn Scott, and the court gratefully draws on his industry, removing those matters that remain controversial between the parties.

19/06/1990	Appellant’s date of birth
8 to 9/ 07/2020	AW1 extradition offence committed – fraud – value €12,220
18/12/2020	AW2 offence (1) committed – attempted fraud
05/01/2021	AW2 offence (2) committed – fraud €450 (The Judge ruled this not to be an extradition offence: the maximum penalty is 45 days’ custody)
06/08/2021	AW2 offence (3) committed – fraud €1,000
26/02/2022	Appellant released from prison on bail (re AW2(1) offence)
27/05/2022	Notice of suspicion served on the Appellant re the AW2(2) offence
23/06/2022	Appellant convicted in Lithuania of AW1 offence
21/10/2022	Search of Appellant ordered
28/10/22	Appellant apparently breaks probation anklet (re AW2(1) offence)
October 2022	Appellant leaves Lithuania for the United Kingdom
14/11/2022	Search ordered re AW2(2) offence
06/01/2023	Appellant convicted of the AW1 offence: 15 months’ custodial term imposed
27/01/2023	Lithuanian Court ordered coercive measure of arrest ordered
06/02/2023	Information received that the Appellant is ‘hiding in the UK’
05/04/2023	Appellant’s appeal dismissed re the AW1 conviction
01/06/2023	TCA Extradition Arrest Warrant issued (conviction)
09/06/2023	TCA Extradition Arrest Warrant issued (accusations)
20/12/2023	AW1 certified as a Part 1 warrant under the Extradition Act 2003 by NCA
17/01/2024	Appellant arrested on AW1
18/01/2024	Appellant appeared at his initial hearing (extradition) at Westminster Magistrates’ Court and remanded in custody where he remains
22/01/2024	AW2 certified as a Part 1 warrant by NCA
26/04/2024	Appellant arrested on AW2
05/09/2024	Extradition Hearing before District Judge Tempia, reserving judgment
12/09/2024	Judgment delivered. Extradition ordered
18/09/2024	Appellant’s Notice lodged at the High Court
11/02/2025	Permission to appeal granted on the papers by Morris J on Grounds 1 and 3; permission refused on Ground 2 (Article 3 claim)