IT WILL now be a ‘miracle’ if Billy Irving is bailed from jail in time for his fiancée Yvonne MacHugh and son William’s visit to see him in India next month.
The pirate-hunter from Connel is one of six ex-British soldiers imprisoned in Chennai after their vessel, the MV Seaman Guard Ohio, strayed into Indian territorial waters in 2013.
A court in Tamil Nadu sentenced the six men to five years’ hard labour in January this year.