As I said way above, the biggest crime here is the skewed (indeed, one might say "colonialist") nature of the treaty unwisely accepted by the poodle B. Liar. The UK government should denounce it.

I have, however, no faith whatsoever that even under the new regime there is any hope of a fair trial in the USA. There is probably little hope there that any custodial time will be spent under humane conditions - to the extent that I think there might be a case that many custodial sentences in the US as they now stand could be argued to be "cruel and unusual punishment".

My anecdotal understanding however is that there are a numebr of eminent legal theorists who argue that Alan Johnson has power under law to refuse to extradite in certain cases, and that this is one that could well fall within the permitted range. A government that can magic up a legal opinion that the decision to invade Iraq was lawful can certainly magic up one to say that this strange young man should not be extradited.