Irish Woman Trapped in Never-ending Legal Nightmare Due to Previous Marriage to Axio Labs Owner

Siobhan Hatton, the ex-wife of the infamous Axio Labs founder Brian Wainstein, has been trapped in a never-ending legal nightmare for the past five years. Her troubles began when a federal grand jury in Tennessee indicted her former husband and several of his alleged co-conspirators back in 2010.

The only good news for Hatton, if you want to call it that, is that the United States government has not yet been able to extradite her. While Hatton is currently in custody at the Dublin Dochas Centre in Ireland, it appears that her actual extradition remains months if not years away.

Hatton was first arrested on an international arrest warrant at a family picnic in London in September 2012. It took three years of court proceedings before England agreed to extradition for her to stand trial in the United States. On the eve of the deadline to turn herself over to U.S. Marshals awaiting her surrender in London in July 2015, Hatton decided to forfeit a £250,000 cash bail and flee to her native Ireland. 

Hatton was immediately arrested by the Garda Síochána (Ireland's National Police Service) extradition unit. After her arrest in Ireland, Hatton proclaimed her innocence in an interview with the Irish newspaper The Sunday World. 

Hatton insisted her only crime was being married to Wainstein, a dual Israeli and South African citizen who had been accused of operating some of the larger international underground steroid laboratories (UGLs), including Axio Labs and GenXXL, between the years of 2004 and 2008.

"There is absolutely no evidence on me other than I was married to the devil," Hatton said. "People have to hear my story. They have to understand what's happening to a mother and a child."

After Hatton fled to Ireland, the United States was forced to start extradition proceedings all over again.

In a court appearance at the Dublin High Court on February 17, 2016, defense attorney Sean Guerin asked Justice Aileen Donnelly for more time to complete a required psychological report. The psychological report is required before the extradition hearings can proceed. Justice Donnelly scheduled Hatton's extradition hearings to begin anew on April 12, 2016.

Meanwhile, her ex-husband Wainstein is free on bail and chilling in his luxury waterfront condominium in Cape Town, South Africa while he fights extradition to the United States.

Hatton could face decades in prison if extradited and convicted in a United States federal court. Meanwhile, Wainstein faces a maximum sentence of 75 years in prison, a maximum fine of $1.75 million and a forfeiture of $8.6 million in drug proceeds if successfully extradited and convicted.

Source:

Sunday World. (February 17, 2016). Wicklow woman wanted in US over alleged multi-million euro steroid enterprise. Retrieved from http://www.sundayworld.com/news/courts/wicklow-woman-wanted-in-us-over-alleged-steroid-enterprise