The Accra Human Rights Court hearing the case of British drug lord David McDermott has ordered the extradition of the arrested kinpin.
McDermottt, who was arrested by a joint law enforcement operation after hiding in Ghana for years, was fighting his extradition, but the court has ordered it, hence he would be sent back to the United Kingdom to stand trial.
McDermott was allegedly part of a drug ring based in Liverpool, and escaped to Ghana about three years ago. He adopted a fake identity, and hid himself so well he married Ramona Wampah, the daughter of the former Bank of Ghana governor, Dr Henry Wampah.
McDermott was arrested in Accra in a joint operation involving Britain’s National Crime Agency and the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) last month.
He is one of several individuals suspected to be connected to a 2013 drug seizure by British authorities, members of a Liverpool based gang attempting to smuggle cocaine and distribute within Britain. The drugs were seized at Tilbury docks nearly three years ago, hidden in a container of frozen Argentinean beef.
McDermott has since been wanted in connection with that drug bust, and also for another charge of conspiracy to commit blackmail.