Extradition approval for student over pirate TV website

UK Home Secretary Theresa May has approved the extradition of a British student to the United States for running a website that provided links to pirated films and television shows, writes Christopher Williams for The Telegraph.

Richard O’Dwyer (23), a computer science student at Sheffield Hallam University, faces up to 10 years in a federal prison for operating TVShack for three years until December 2010.

O’Dwyer’s mother, Julia, said her son had been “sold down the river by the government” in comments designed to embarrass Prime Minister David Cameron as he arrives in Washington for talks with President Barack Obama.

O'Dwyer can now appeal to the High Court and eventually to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. His is the latest in a string of controversial extradition cases involving the United States, following the introduction in 2004 of a treaty that means British suspects may be sent across the Atlantic without any test of the evidence against them.
Full report on The Telegraph site