An Estonian man has pleaded guilty at the non-jury Special Criminal Court to conspiring to murder a man in Northern Ireland last year. Paul Greene SC, prosecuting, told the three-judge court this morning that Arakas could be arraigned on the single count. Dressed in a blue t-shirt and wearing his hair long to his shoulders, Arakas stood up and faced the court. When the registrar read the indictment to Arakas and asked him how he was pleading, he replied, “guilty”. Michael Bowman SC, representing Arakas, requested that a governor’s report be prepared on behalf of his client and this was granted by the court.

Source: The Irish Times November 12, 2018 12:22 UTC