Terror law adviser backs 'hacker'
Updated on 06 July 2009
The Home Office's adviser on terror laws has said that extraditing an autistic Briton accused of hacking into US military networks would be "cruel" when he could be prosecuted in the UK.
In a letter to Home Secretary Alan Johnson, Lord Carlile warned that allowing Gary McKinnon to be put before the US courts would be "disproportionate, unnecessary and avoidable".
Mr McKinnon, from Wood Green, north London, is seeking judicial review of the then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's decision last October to order extradition after previous legal challenges failed.
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