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'Our gentle son has been threatened with rape if he goes to a US jail'

The long arm of American law 2: The McKinnon family By John Bynorth

THE parents of a Scots computer expert who faces extradition to the US for hacking into the Pentagon and other military installations have claimed that he has been threatened with rape in an American prison even before his trial.