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Thread #70135   Message #1232332
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
23-Jul-04 - 01:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: Hook Bloke Aressted
Subject: RE: BS: Hook Bloke Aressted
Adjourned until October.
He is claiming that his trial in USA would not be fair, and anyway he can not be sent if he would face the death penalty.
Five years ago some Afghans hijacked a plane at gunpoint and wisely chose UK as a destination.Convicted of hijacking, they appealed on the grounds that the judge made a legal error in his summing up, and were freed. The courts have just decided that it would breach their human rights to even send them home even though the Taliban from whom they claimed to be fleeing are no longer in power.
So don't expect to see Hooke Bloke in US any time soon.
Keith.