AN AMERICAN PENSIONER who was previously charged with applying for passports in the names of two dead babies has been charged with three new offences. 

In November of last year, Cork District Court heard that the former mystery man, had been positively identified as 72-year-old Randolph Kirk Parker. 

Detective Garda Padraig Hanley, of the Garda National Bureau of Crime Investigation, said that they had been able to identify the accused with the assistance of the FBI and the US Embassy.

He stated that that the man in custody had a date of birth of 7 March 1951 and was a US national with an FBI record. 

Today at Cork District Court, Detective Garda Hanley said that Parker made no reply when he was charged with three additional offences. 

Parker was today charged with one further charge of providing false information to obtain a passport at the Passport Office in Cork in 2013, giving a false name to gardaí at the Bridewell Garda Station in Cork when he was arrested in September of last year, and possession of a driving licence obtained by using a false name on the date on which he was arrested. 

Detective Garda Hanley told Judge Mary Dorgan that the DPP had directed trial by indictment on all of the charges with the exception of the one where Parker is charged with giving gardaí a false name at the garda station in Cork city centre. 

Defence solicitor, Frank Buttimer, applied for a précis of the prosecution evidence to enable his client in considering whether to enter signed pleas of guilty. Alternatively, a book of evidence may be needed in the case. 

Judge Dorgan adjourned the case until Thursday. Parker was further remanded in custody until that date. He will appear in court on video link on Thursday. 

The pensioner appeared in court in person today. He did not speak during the brief hearing. 

Meanwhile, the court previously heard that Interpol had liaised with their 195 member countries in order to help gardaí identify the man. 

Parker was previously charged with providing false information to obtain passports in the names of two infants born in the 1950’s who died within months of their birth. 

Detective Garda Hanley previously said that when questioned the man stated said he was living in Ireland and needed a passport to leave the country. However, he refused to assist officers in any way. He also refused to tell them his true identity. 

Detective Garda Hanley also previously told the court that a number of addresses in Ireland may or may not be linked with the man. Gardaí have been in touch with the RSA, the Residential Tenancies Board, the ESB and the VHI. A team was set up to carry out enquiries and to liaise with Interpol. 

Parker was arrested on 15 September 2023 at the passport office in South Mall in Cork. He was charged in the name of Philip Frank Morris of no fixed address, with a date of birth in the 1950s. 

He was charged with two offences relating to allegedly providing false or misleading information in order to obtain a passport.

Detective Garda Hanley previously told the court that the man allegedly used the name of a baby, Philip Frank Morris, who was born in December 1952 but subsequently died to apply for a passport in Cork.

Detective Garda Hanley said that when questioned the man said he was residing in Ireland and needed the passport to leave the country. Detective Sergeant Hanley said the man did not co operate with officers in any way following his arrest.

He said the man held an Irish passport for three decades but only recently obtained a PPS number.

Detective Garda Hanley said that they had spoken to the brother of the late Philip Morris who died at the age of four months in 1953. 

The man, now identified as Parker, was subsequently charged with an additional offence. 

Detective Garda Hanley said that the man made no reply when he was charged with providing information or documents on 11 September last at the passport office in South Mall which were false or misleading. 

The court heard that Parker allegedgly had a passport in the name of Geoffrey Warbrook. However, Detective Garda Hanley said gardaí had spoken to relatives of Warbrook who confirmed that he died as a young baby in the early 1950s. 

“Both of those two people (Philip Morris and Geoffrey Warbook) died. We have interviewed siblings of both of those people who died in 1952 and 1953. They died within months of their birth. 

“We are satisfied that he is not Philip Morris or Geoffrey Warbrook (the two names on passports allegedly seized from the man).”