McKinnon's psychiatric health is now being reconsidered
Home Office delays McKinnon extradition
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19 Oct 2009, V3.co.uk staff , V3
Former hacker Gary McKinnon has had his extradition to the US put on hold again as new psychiatric evidence is considered.
McKinnon was denied permission to appeal to the Supreme Court against his trial being held in the US, and had 14 days to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.
Reports on the BBC claim that the Home Office has now agreed to consider new evidence, and has put the 14-day deadline on hold.
McKinnon, who has Asperger's syndrome, could face decades in prison if found guilty of accessing US space agency and military computers in what he claims was a search for information on UFOs.
Karen Todner, McKinnon's lawyer, said she hoped that home secretary Alan Johnson would "show some compassion to someone who is extremely vulnerable".
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Do you agree?
He did them a favour
Gary did the Americans a favour revealing how insecure their systems are.
He should stay here.
Posted by Yorky, 19 Oct 2009
THE US ARE THE GUILTY PARTY
The fact that this man with some learning difficulties could actually gain access to top secret information,shows just how bad the security systems in the US are,.so maybe they should invite him over to show just how easy it was ,then perhaps they will learn something about so it can't happen again.Just think now what would have happened if a terrorist gained access.
SO---drop your case againts this innocent man and learn a hard lesson.
Posted by JOHN CROW, 19 Oct 2009