My concerns over this person, whether his aspergers is a defence or not, are whatever they happen to be. I don't tend to judge people accused of a crime, I tend to respect the judicial process before saying what I think of them.

However, this issue is more about the very unbalanced extradition treaty we have with other countries, especially USA.

The arguments that have been put forward to send him for trial give no assurances regarding his possible future, as they speak of trial with no pre conditions. I have been informed that his actions could be construed as "aiding the enemy." Two things there; He cannot be the enemy when he isn't even American. Secondly, if the trial would have no preconditions, then the death penalty would be an option despite the assurances given to UK courts.

Hopefully, we still restrict our extraditions in that we never turn over a UK citizen to countries with the stain of judicial murder on their statute books. I thought the idea was to slowly encourage backward countries to give up their barbaric actions and embrace a more civilised way of life?

At the risk of agreeing with Bridge, (getting too mutually often....) I have faith in PACE as an instrument of gathering evidence to convince CPS or other regulators of evidence for trial, so sorry Bert, you are confusing criminal actions by rogue officers with how we carry out investigations. I am involved with a government regulator and we are obliged to use PACE, and since being trained and using it, I reckon it can be an excellent safeguard to protect both accused and accuser.