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The latest instalment in the seemingly never-ending Gary McKinnon saga is that a High Court judge has said the Home Secretary could arguably have acted unlawfully in allowing his extradition.
McKinnon – who stands accused of hacking into US military computers – has been granted a further judicial review of the Home Secretary’s decision to allow the US to go ahead.
This hearing will take place in April or May, according to reports, so McKinnon is at least safe from extradition until then.
If he is extradited, McKinnon could face up to 60 years in an American high security prison. His legal team have argued against this based on evidence that his poor state of mental health means he isn’t fit to face this prospect, and a potential suicide risk.
(With corrected email address) — The way the media have it, it seems the US Intelligence Services are fumbling around in the dark – unable to detect, say, a suspected Al-Kaida suicide bomber on an incoming commercial flight, whose name and motive is already known to them, yet able to serve-up States’ vengeance to and make an extraordinary example of a suspected Asperger’s sufferer. Once “due-process” is underway – watch out – these dodgy bureaucrats seem as blind, severe and uncompromising as any of their Russian and Chinese counterparts.