The international investigation into the brutal murder of US native Jamey Carney has run into a wall of complex legal and diplomatic hurdles.

Gardaí are working alongside international agencies to secure the return of the prime suspect from Jordan, but they face strict limits on their ability to directly question him or easily bring him back to Ireland.
Under current international protocols, Gardaí are not currently permitted to travel to Jordan to question the chief person of interest in the investigation.
It is understood that it will be weeks, at the very earliest, before Irish authorities can apply to Jordanian officials for a mutual assistance request to permit officers to travel there.
Even if this permission is eventually granted, Gardaí would only be present in a strictly observational capacity. They would have no power to interview the suspect directly; instead, any questioning of the detained man would have to be carried out entirely by Jordanian authorities.
Further complicating the matter is the fact that Ireland does not share an active extradition treaty with Jordan. Under Irish law, formal extradition requests cannot even be initiated until the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) directs that charges are to be laid.
Currently, 28-year-old Jordanian national Ahmad Al-Saqar has not been formally charged.
Detective inspectors in Killarney are working as a matter of urgency on a comprehensive case file to submit to the DPP.
Because Ms. Carney was an American citizen, US law enforcement agents have also joined the international effort, working alongside Gardaí, Interpol, and Europol to coordinate the diplomatic and legal steps required to keep the suspect in custody in Jordan.
Al-Saqar, who had been living in Ireland for approximately two years within the international protection system, was Jamey’s boyfriend in the months leading up to her death.
Authorities established that he boarded a 3:00am night bus from Killarney to Dublin Airport on Tuesday, July 7, catching an early morning flight to Istanbul, Turkey, before traveling onward to Amman, where he was detained by Jordan’s Public Security Directorate.
By the time Jamey’s 13-year-old daughter tragically discovered her mother's body at their home in the Homeland estate on Muckross Road later that Tuesday afternoon, the suspect was already out of the jurisdiction.
Gardaí are continuing to gather evidence in Killarney and are appealing to anyone who may have been on the Muckross Road between 11:00pm on Monday, July 6 and 5:00am on Tuesday, July 7 to provide any dashcam or CCTV footage they may have.