A LONDON magistrate has refused to grant Ms Roisin McAliskey bail despite describing a medical report, which indicated she was in danger of miscarrying, as "disturbing reading".
She is pregnant and awaiting extradition in connection with the IRA bombing of a British army base in Germany.
Although Mr Ronald Bartle, the magistrate at Bow Street Magistrates' Court, said there was "no justification" for the prison authorities failure to provide Ms McAliskey with the necessary medical attention, he felt it was his "public duty" not to grant bail because of the serious nature of the charge.
"This court has no authority whatever where questions of prison administration are concerned but, that said, I commented on the last occasion that Ms McAliskey's condition should be properly provided for," he added.
Mr Bartle remanded Ms McAliskey (25), who is five months pregnant, to Holloway prison, north London until December 20th, when it is expected the German government will issue the necessary extradition papers.
The German authorities allege Ms McAliskey, who is a community worker from Coalisland, Co Tyrone, was part of a five-member IRA gang which launched three mortar bombs on the Osnabruck barracks in June.
Ms McAliskey did not speak throughout the hour-long hearing. Her mother, Mrs Bernadette McAliskey, the former Mid-Ulster MP, was in court.
Requesting bail, her solicitor, Ms Gareth Peirce, asked the magistrate to read an independent medical report which stated there was a significant risk" her client would miscarry unless she was admitted to hospital for emergency treatment.
The report said Ms McAliskey showed signs of "advanced starvation" because of repeated vomiting, dehydration and fresh bleeding from a stomach ulcer.
"The report says she has had abdominal pains and called for help to no avail. If a GP had neglected Ms McAliskey in this way he would have been struck off the register... There is a serious danger to this pregnancy. She needs urgent tests and be admitted to hospital", said Ms Peirce.
Sureties totalling £200,000 and a lodgement into court of £150,000 had also been raised. Ms Peirce added that a number of prominent English politicians had expressed concern about the case.
Mr John Hardy, for the German government, told the court, it would be a "substantial feather in the cap of the IRA" if Ms McAliskey absconded on bail. He also stated that she had been identified from photographs and her fingerprints had been found in the house used by the IRA gang.
