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Priti Patel is today urged to spare a British businessman from a grotesque and unjust extradition to the United States.
The Home Secretary faced an impassioned call from Tory colleague and ex-Cabinet Minister David Davis to give billionaire Mike Lynch more time to fight his case.
Dr Lynch, founder of British software giant Autonomy, is at risk of forceable removal to the US after a court ruling last week.
Once dubbed Britain s Bill Gates, he is accused of cooking the books at his former firm before it was sold to American giant Hewlett-Packard for £8 billion in 2011.
Dr Lynch, founder of British software giant Autonomy, is at risk of forceable removal to the US after a court ruling last week
Most distressingly, any Briton can be seized from their home and taken to a prison in a foreign country purely on the say-so of that nation’s lawyers if they claim the person is guilty of some – as yet unproved – crime.
For the UK is one of most amenable nations in the world to the surrender of its citizens to overseas courts – but we do not insist on corresponding arrangements with other governments.
We have witnessed the human toll of this shocking imbalance in recent years, with the US, for example, making strenuous efforts to haul Britons before American courts.