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Gary has been in a really bad way, near suicidal … this is inhumane

The mother of the Scot who is facing extradition to the US on computer hacking charges last night launched an impassioned plea for her son to be allowed to stay in the UK.

Janis Sharp told a fringe meeting of the Conservative Party conference that its pledge to rewrite the country’s “one-sided” extradition agreements would come too late to save Glasgow-born Gary McKinnon from being sent to the US for trial.