‘Oooh, it’s a bit crowded in those Irish prisons’

An accused hitman facing extradition for shooting dead a zookeeper does not want to be extradited to Ireland because the jails there are already overcrowded, a court heard. Daithi ‘David’ Douglas, 54, was blasted six times in front of his wife and daughter in the doorway of a children’s shoe shop in Bridgefoot Street, Dublin 8 on 1 July 2016. Lee Canavan, 31, was due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court via video-link from HMP Belmarsh but failed to attend…