Final McKinnon plea fails...

· UK's Home Secretary has rejected a last-ditch appeal for him to block the extradition of Gary McKinnon to the US on computer hacking charges.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Hacker-Gary-McKinnon-Should-Be-Extradited-To-US-Says-Alan-Johnson-After-Rejecting-Appeal

[UK's Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, rejected new appeal]

UK's Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, said he had considered demands for him to intervene in the case but had decided the extradition would not breach Mr McKinnon's human rights.
The 43-year-old, from Wood Green in north London, is accused of breaking into the Pentagon's computer system but says he was just seeking UFO evidence.
Mr McKinnon, who has Asperger's syndrome, was given hope last month when the Home Secretary agreed to study new medical evidence before deciding on his extradition to the US.
Mr Johnson's deliberations came after the High Court refused Mr McKinnon permission to appeal to the Supreme Court against his removal to America.

"What a heartless and cowardly decision this is."
- Janis Sharp, G. McKinnon's mother.

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Is anything being done about Gary McKinnon?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1197182/Betrayal-naive-hacker-Why-MPs-doing-help-Aspergers-victim-Gary.html

With absurd ease, Asperger's victim Gary McKinnon hacked into NASA and Pentagon computers in a bid to prove the existence of alien life. So why is the U.S. using all its might to extradite him to face 60 years in jail? And more pertinently, why are british politicians doing nothing to help him?
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'It is important to be clear that, under the terms of the Extradition Act 2003, the Home Secretary must order extradition unless certain limited conditions are met.

'The courts have already said that those conditions are not met in Mr McKinnon's case; and his attempts to defeat the U.S. request have since been dismissed by the High Court, the House of Lords and the European Court of Human Rights.'

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