He has Asperger's syndrome, and suffers from depressive illness. The legal question before me is now whether the extent of that illness is sufficient to preclude extradition. After careful consideration of all of the relevant material, I have concluded that Mr McKinnon's extradition would give rise to such a high risk of him ending his life that a decision to extradite would be incompatible with Mr McKinnon's human rights." That must mean that Shrien Dewani can't go to South African either, he's depressed and from what I understand of 'slow puncture' extradition would pose a high risk to his life. That must mean that Shrien Dewani can't go to South African either, he's depressed and from what I understand of 'slow puncture' extradition would pose a high risk to his life. Does this mean we all get to claim depression/mental fragility and get off extradition? Obama's ex legal policy advisor was suggesting that was the end point (he also suggested that American prisons were humane, so maybe I shouldn't take him too seriously) Trial for what? The extradition request must claim the crime happened in their jurisdiction right? Yeah, think the logic is that he hacked US computers so its a US crime. One of the rationales for extraditing him was that all he had done here was sit in his room on him computer- which isn't illegal. Interesting to see how they get out of that one, as he has admitted hacking some pretty exciting systems He may have