Briton loses appeal against extradition to US

Gary McKinnon, an unemployed computer expert who lost his appeal in the High Court, said he was searching for evidence of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) when he hacked into US computers and was not intending to disrupt security. According to a report on the News 24 site, Lord Justice Maurice Kay and Justice John Goldring dismissed his challenge, saying: ‘We do not find any grounds of appeal.’ However, Ben Cooper, representing the 41-year-old McKinnon, said he would now try to have the House of Lords, Britain\'s highest court, hear the case. A US indictment alleges he deleted material from computers at US naval weapon station Earle at a critical time following the September 11 2001 attacks, shutting down the base\'s entire network of more than 300 computers. Full report on the News 24 site