Gerard Tuite
Military Person
1955 –
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Who is Gerard Tuite?
Gerard Tuite was a senior member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Upon his escape from Brixton prison during the Hunger Strike in the winter of 1980, he was declared the most wanted man in Britain. Following his capture, at 26 years of age, in the spring of 1982 he made Irish legal history by being the first Irish citizen charged with an offence committed in another country in a case which made international headlines. His prosecution in Ireland, for offences committed in Britain was a landmark one in international law.
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