McKinnon Preference Due In October

The home personal assistant will confirm either to demand P.C. hacker Gary McKinnon's extradition to the US by mid-October, the High Court has heard.

Last week Mr McKinnon's mom mentioned the 46-year-old "had no choice" but to exclude a medical assessment to see if he was fit to be extradited.

Mr McKinnon, from north London, admits hacking US army computers but says he was seeking for indication of UFOs.

If he is convicted in the US, he could face up to 60 years in jail.

The ultimate conference has primarily been about the timescale of the case, BBC match Daniel Boetcher said.

This is partly due to the amount of indication that has to be considered, but moreover since Home Secretary Theresa May right away had an "increased and all-consuming impasse in the Olympic Games", according to the attorney is to Home Office.

The justice moreover listened that Mrs May longed for to make her preference when Parliament was sitting.

At an progressing hearing, judges were told she was "close" to creation a decision.

Mrs May mentioned she was "personally concerned" Mr McKinnon had not been carefully thought about by a Home Office-appointed medical assessor, to confirm either there was a danger of self-murder if he was extradited.

But his family mentioned the Home Office expert, Professor Thomas Fahy, had no experience in uncovering suicidal tendencies in Asperger's set of symptoms patients.

Mr McKinnon, who hacked in to the US computers in 2002, has been fighting extradition since 2006.