Mark Ballard the Inquirer, Wednesday 15 October 2008. 16:47:00

Maple syrup is supposed to be on the table before the pancakes

PEOPLE LIKE Pentagon Hacker Gary McKinnon often discover they have Asperger’s Syndrome late in life. The UK government is more concerned that he discovered it late in his trial. On Monday, lawyers acting for the Home Office wrote to McKinnon’s lawyers explaining why they thought his Asperger’s condition, a form of autism, was no reason to stay his extradition to face 60 years in a US prison. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s scepticism of McKinnon’s diagnosis was expressed somewhat insensitively in the course of the 11-page document, which the Home Office has refused to publish, but which THE INQUIRER has obtained….



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