Johnson must halt McKinnon extradition and renegotiate treaty says Huhne
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
“It is not in the interests of justice to send a British citizen with mental health problems to face decades in an American jail," said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary.
Commenting on the Home Affairs Select Committee’s call for the extradition of Gary McKinnon to be halted because of his ‘precarious state of mental health’, Chris Huhne said:
“The Home Affairs Select Committee is telling Alan Johnson what he has already been told and what he should have known.
“It is not in the interests of justice to send a British citizen with mental health problems to face decades in an American jail.
“The Home Secretary must put an end to this shameful episode and then renegotiate the extradition treaty so this fiasco is not repeated.”
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