British Prime Minister Pleads for Pentagon Hacker

Gary 44 and his mother

Gary McKinnon has Asperges Syndrome and has caused an international dilemma. He admits hacking into the Pentagon and Nasa computers looking for evidence of 'little green men'. US authorities have said it was the biggest military attack ever and cost a million dollars to fix the damage. Naturally, the Americans want him extradicted to stand trial in America but his family and lawyers say it could trigger psychosis and even suicide because of his mental condition. British MP's have asked the Americans if he could stand trial in Britain and serve any sentence in his own country and that's the question Prime Minister David Cameron put to President Obama yesterday when they met in Washington.

Mr McKinnon's mother watched President Obama and David Cameron speaking about her son's case at a press conference on television and believe the two leaders could save her son from the terror of a trial in the US.

She said "I'm absoslutely thrilled. I think it's amazing that David Cameron was prepared to stand up and do this during such a tremendously important meeting. I am extremely encouraged that these two powerful men were prepared to take time out to discuss a vulnerable man who has endured eight years of fear'.

Ashed if she would accept a compromise of a US trial and an assurance that McKinnon would serve any time in the UK she said "No. Gary has a terror of travel and they know that".