Just had this latest update in from Gary McKinnon‘s legal representative. His legal struggles have been long. This afternoon, the Secretary of State has advised via the Treasury Solicitors, that despite Mr McKinnon’s diagnosis with Aspergers she will now be making arrangements for his extradition pursuant to her order for Extradition of 4th July 2006. … Continue reading Gary McKinnon To Be Extradited Despite Aspergers
We heard news from Gary McKinnon’s law firm, Kaim Todner, that the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’) has ruled against their recent application to have Gary’s extradition to the US halted. The temporary prohibition of McKinnon’s extradition, as granted by the ECtHR on 12 August, is now effectively lifted and the authorities of the … Continue reading Gary McKinnon: All Legal Routes Exhausted: Extradition To US Likely
You’ll remember that UK ‘hacker’ Gary McKinnon had lost his House of Lords Appeal at the tail end of July. He’s attempting to stop his deportation to America to be tried on hacking charges. He and those in his defence camp, including his lawyers, Kaim Todner LLP, will be breathing a sigh of relief, for … Continue reading Gary McKinnon Gets European Court Date: Newsflash
Gary McKinnon, who is accused by the US government of being a ‘computer hacker,’ lost his appeal to the House of Lords yesterday. He was appealing against being extradited to the US, but in a unanimous decision, the Lords said to find in favour of McKinnon would, “imperil the integrity of the extradition process.”
Hacking-mad Scot claimed to have rummaged around in 53 US military and NASA computers. Now in a spot of bother about it.