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Hacker's extradition on hold

New psychiatric evidence has placed Gary McKinnons extradition to the US on hold.

Glasgow-born McKinnon, 42, was accused of hacking into secret military and Nasa computers. McKinnon has admitted breaking into the computers, but says he sought information on UFOs and only got in because of lax security and left messages alerting them.

The US government, insists he committed a malicious crime the biggest military computer hack ever.

McKinnon was denied permission to appeal to the Supreme Court against his removal. He then had 14 days to appeal to the European Court, but the Home Office has agreed to consider new evidence and has put that 14-day deadline on hold.

Mr McKinnon, suffers from Asperger's syndrome, and could face decades in an American jail.

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