Közlemény

Az RTL bepanaszolta a Justice for Marci and Petra Foundationt, hogy jogosulatlanul tett fel a youtube-ra videókat (részletek itt: www.ciaran-tobin.com). Ez technikailag nyilván így van - bár évekig ez nem zavarta őket. Mindazonáltal tisztelettel kérjük a Magyar RTL-t, vonja vissza követelését. Indokaink a következők:

- a videók youtube-ra való feltöltéséből anyagi hasznunk nincs
- a videók sok már helyen elérhetők, mi csak egy helyre gyüjtöttük őket
- a videók nemzetközi közönség előtt történő közzététele kiemelten fontos társadalmi ügyet szolgál Magyarországon:
           - két magyar kisgyermek élete előtt tisztelgünk
           - a magyar igazságszolgáltatás tekintélyének helyreállításáért küzdünk
           - az alapvető emberi igazságérzetünk és morális felelősségérzetünk szerint cselekszünk

Minden emberi közösség megkerülhetetlen alapértéke a Jog. Célunk semmi más, mint hogy a Magyar Bíróság jogerős ítéletének érvényt szerezzünk.

Ez a jog igazi védelme. Tessék ebben nekünk segíteni, ne pedig keresztbe tenni.

Köszönettel,
A Justice for Marci and Petra Foundation

RTL Klub's notice

Latest News:
Some publicly available videos, related to the case, have been removed from youtube as a result of Magyar RTL's copyright claim.
We request Magyar RTL to withdraw their demand to remove video materials related to this case, and instead, help us give this appalling case more exposure on prime time television.
Thank you.
The Justice for Marci and Petra Foundation

The key: media attention - quote from Két kis ember

Ciaran Tobin's extradition case adjourned - again, and again, and again

Case adjourned again, this time till the end of June. The European Arrest Warrant against Ciaran Tobin expires in 2012 (or so we know), so it's in Tobin's best - albeit costly - interest to drag on the case until then. 

The question is, will Mr. Justice Micheal Peart be party to Tobin's maneuvering? 

The current standing of this 10-year-old case continues to add, unfortunately, to the humiliation of Hungary and its justice system, and the ineffective institution of the European Arrest Warrant.

Also for the record: today's news, as reported by Radio Kossuth.

"Tovább húzódik a leányfalui ír gázoló kiadatása. A dublini felsőbíróság Június végéig elnapolta a férfi kiadatási tárgyalását. Francis Ciaran Tobin tíz évvel ezelőtt autójával előzés közben egy öt és egy kétéves kisgyermek halálát okozta. A szerencsétlenség után nem sokkal hazament Írországba, távollétében a magyar bíróság háromévi börtönre ítélte. Tavaly – az európai elfogatóparancs alapján – Dublinban őrizetbe vették, de szabadlábon védekezhet."

Note: MTI, the Hungarian News Agency, has now, at the request of Mr. Zoltai, correctly reported Tobin's sentence as "3 years in prison". (Previously both the Hungarian and Irish press stated, incorrectly and repeatedly, that "Ciaran Tobin's sentence was reduced to 18 months on appeal".) So again, for the press and everyone else:

Ciaran Tobin was sentenced, on appeal, to 3 years in prison by the Court of Hungary. He is entitled to apply for parole after 18 months served. (So that's where the "18 months" comes from.) 

Ciaran Tobin on Caboodle

Case of Irish driver who killed two kids in Hungary once again adjourned

By: MTI

2010-04-16 09:19

The High Court of Ireland has once again adjourned the extradition case of Francis Ciaran Tobin, an Irish man who ran over and killed two children while driving in Hungary in 2000.

Judicial sources told MTI in Dublin on Thursday that Tobin will have to appear in court next on April 21.

At recent hearings, held every few weeks, the court repeatedly adjourned the case and requested further documents.

Tobin, 43, a senior Irish Life insurance officer who represented his company in Hungary for three years, hit two children, aged two and five, when he swerved onto the pavement in his Volvo. The children died instantly.

In late 2000, when court proceedings got under way, the Hungarian court let him leave the country on bail. In October 2002, Tobin was sentenced to three years in prison in absentia. Following an appeal, the sentence was reduced to one and a half years. [THIS IS INCORRECT. TOBIN WAS SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS ON APPEAL. ED.]

Tobin, however, failed to return to Hungary to serve his prison term. Hungary formally asked for his extradition. The Irish Supreme Court rejected the request, arguing that Tobin left Hungary legally before the sentence was passed.

A recent Irish law amendment, urged by Hungary's former justice minister Tibor Draskovics, has made it possible for Irish authorities to take Tobin into custody, which they did in November last year. However, he has been freed on bail and must appear in the High Court for the hearings.

(Source: Caboodle.hu)