Counsel for the DPP made an application for nolle prosequi, or to strike out, the two charges in court on 23 October. Judge Martin Nolan then freed the man, but garda\u00ed immediately rearrested him on foot of a deportation order. The man had been held in prison on remand since his charge in October of last year and was viewing proceedings on video link.<\/p>\n
Sources say that the move came as a surprise to some garda investigators, who believed the case was strong enough to be successfully progressed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\n A GNIB officer at Dublin Airport during a deportation operation. An Garda Siochana<\/p>\n
An Garda Siochana\n<\/p>\n
Ireland does not have a deportation agreement with Sudan, but sources have said that garda\u00ed from the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) are working with the embassy of Sudan in Dublin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Behind-the-scenes preparations are now underway to return the man to Sudan, with the logistics proving to be complex.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is understood that the garda\u00ed are trying to determine how to get the man, who is in custody in the Midlands Prison, from Ireland to Sudan.<\/p>\n
Sudan is currently wracked by a civil war between the government-backed Sudan Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a militia group formerly known as the Janjaweed, which the International Criminal Court<\/a> has previously accused of genocide.<\/p>\n Fighting has taken place across the country with accusations of large-scale atrocities and fighting in the capital city of Khartoum, limiting international connections to the country.<\/p>\n More than 150,000 people have been killed in the war, many of them civilians. There are 8.9 million people displaced and some 33.7 million people in need of direct humanitarian assistance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n It is an exceptionally difficult region to get to, either through South Sudan via Ethiopia or from a crossing with the desert from Egypt or Chad to the east.<\/p>\n A security source said garda\u00ed were told that it is \u201cimportant to show that Sudan is not a difficult place to deport people\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n A complicating factor for the Irish authorities is that the man needed either a passport or a document known as a\u00a0laissez-passer in order to be deported. The agreement reached with the Sudanese embassy in Dublin means that this has been resolved.\u00a0<\/p>\n Rollingnews.ie<\/p>\n Deportation order<\/p>\n The man had already gone through a number of failed bids to stay in the country in recent years and a warrant had been issued to remove him from the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n The GNIB had not executed the order at the time of the incident at Citywest; however, once he was cleared and released it immediately sought to execute the deportation.\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"Citywest](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793432412_369_.jpeg\")
\n A garda van burns during violence at City West after an alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl at the facility. Rollingnews.ie<\/p>\n