http://news.scotsman.com/news/Hacker-Gary-McKinnon-may-serve.6433004.jp By Christopher Mackie The Scotsman 22 July 2010 COMPUTER hacker Gary McKinnon may be allowed to spend part of any prison sentence imposed by a United States court in a British jail, after David Cameron revealed it was one of a range of options being discussed by diplomats on both sides of the Atlantic. The Prime Minister said UK officials had been in talks with the US ambassador on the fate of Mr McKinnon, who suffers from Asperger's and is due to be extradited to the US to face charges he illegally accessed Nasa and Pentagon computers. His supporters maintain he is ill and should not be sent to the US, and they were given hope on Tuesday, with US president Barack Obama indicating he wished to find an "appropriate solution" to the row after it was raised by Mr Cameron during White House talks. Yesterday, the Prime Minister, who has publicly condemned plans to send Mr McKinnon to the US to face trial, said his government had held discussion with US officials, and that allowing the Glasgow-born hacker to serve time in a UK jail was "one potential outcome" of the talks. He said they had been working on options "where perhaps some of (the sentence] - if there is a prison sentence - is served in a British prison". [...] _________________________________________________________________ Attend Black Hat USA 2010, hosted at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada July 24-29th, offering over 60 training sessions and 11 tracks of Briefings from security industry elite. To sign up visit http://www.blackhat.comReceived on Wed Jul 21 2010 - 23:40:50 PDT
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