Gerard Tuite (born 1955) 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 Great Britain. Following his capture, at 26 years of age, in the spring of 1982 he made Irish legal history as the first citizen of the Republic of Ireland to be charged with an offence committed in another country. His prosecution in the Republic of Ireland, for offences committed in the United Kingdom, was a landmark one in international law.
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1955 (age 70)
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