Hacker step closer to extradition

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Thursday, 26 February 2009 08:44

By BBC News

British computer hacker Gary McKinnon has lost the latest round of his battle against extradition to the US.
The Crown Prosecution Service refused to bring charges against him in the UK.
Mr McKinnon, 42, from Wood Green, north London, faces up to 70 years in prison if found guilty in the US of breaking into military computers.
Supporters had called on Gordon Brown to halt his extradition and allow him to be tried in the UK instead.

Glasgow-born Mr McKinnon trespassed on networks owned by Nasa, the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Department of Defense in 2001 and 2002.

Despite taking his appeal to the House of Lords last year, he lost a six-year legal battle to avoid extradition.

The European Court of Human Rights also declined to back Mr McKinnon's case against extradition.

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