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THE NEW MINISTER WHO BACKS HIS CASE

One of Gary McKinnon’s staunchest supporters has been made a senior government minister in the department responsible for extradition.

Campaigners hope the Home Office’s appointment of Baroness Browning will give the Asperger’s sufferer a far stronger voice inside Whitehall.

The former Tory MP, who has held face-to-face meetings with Gary’s mother and has an autistic child herself, previously organised a letter  signed by 40 MPs calling on Barack Obama to end the ‘shameful’ legal proceedings against Gary.

Baroness Browning has also warned the House of Lords that ‘the evidence already before the Home Office shows overwhelmingly that the threat of [Gary committing] self-harm is not an idle threat but is very real’.

She even called on the U.S. government to give Gary a job working  on computer security for the  Pentagon rather than pursue him through the courts.

The Home Office is currently holding a review of the extradition treaty between the U.S. and UK. Critics say it is lopsided in favour of the Americans.

Baroness Browning takes over responsibility for explaining what is happening with the review in the Lords following the resignation of Home Office Minister Baroness Neville-Jones on Monday.

via dailymail.co.uk