A 19-year-old charged with hacking the website of the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a justice has heard.
Ryan Cleary, from Wickford, Essex, was arrested as segment of a Scotland Yard and FBI investigate in to online hacking organisation LulzSec.
His give advice told City of Westminster Magistrates' Court he suffers from the form of autism, along with agoraphobia.
He was postulated bail, but waste in control after prosecutors objected.
Ben Cooper, fortifying Mr Cleary, mentioned he was anxious the purported hacker would have to sojourn in control over the weekend.
The justice was told he is of high comprehension but has burden interacting with other people.
But prosecutors refused to recur their bail appeal.
Mr Cleary is purported to have set up a distributed rejection of service (DDOS) assault on the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) on 20 June.
A DDOS assault typically involves flooding a aim website with data, in an endeavor to overcome it so it cannot offer its bona fide users.
He has been indicted of aggressive the website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry in November 2010.
And Mr Cleary moreover allegedly pounded the British Phonographic Industry's website in October.
He was charged beneath the Criminal Law Act and Computer Misuse Act by the Met Police's e-crime unit.
The charges against Mr Cleary add conspiring with other different people on or before 20 June to assemble a botnet - a gathering of hijacked home computers - to actions distributed rejection of service attacks.
He is moreover charged with making, adapting, provision or gift to supply a botnet, intending that it should be used to commit, or to support in the assignment of a distributed rejection of service attack.
The bail allure will go to a Plea and Case Management Hearing at Southwark Crown Court on 30 August.
If Mr Cleary wins bail he will be criminialized from having any receive that can access the internet.
No internet access will be authorised at his home, that he will be taboo from leaving without his mother, Rita Cleary.
Mr Cleary has not entered a request to any of the charges.
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