Marian Price should be released immediately - Sinn Féin

'It is obvious she is a threat to no one and continuing to keep her in prison is wrong'

MARIAN PRICE is so ill that she could not even appear by video link in her court case this week and she should be released immediately, a Sinn Féin MLA has said today.

Price is being held in prison after British Secretary of State Owen Paterson revoked her licence on release from a jail sentence in the 1970s. The west Belfast woman had been freed on a ‘Royal Prerogative of Mercy’ in 1980 when she became seriously ill after suffering from anorexia and tuberculosis while in Armagh Jail.

West Belfast Sinn Féin MLA Jennifer McCann said today:

“The continuing imprisonment of Marian Price is unacceptable. Not only was Marian Price again deemed too unwell to appear in court but she is that ill she could not even appear by video link.

“It is obvious she is a threat to no one and continuing to keep her in prison is wrong.”