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Originally Posted by rogueteens
you are missing the point, it is a major issue here and a major news story. its been seen as the US stomping around, demanding everything done their way and there is a lot of opposition to that in the UK.
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So then why is the UK not extraditing a murderer to South Africa....?
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012...n_1723531.html
A businessman wanted in South Africa for the honeymoon murder of his wife needs 12 months to recover from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder before being able to deal with the extradition process, a court has heard.
Shrien Dewani, 32, who is accused of arranging the contract killing of his wife Anni in Cape Town in November 2010, is under medical treatment after being sectioned and deemed a suicide risk.
Dewani needs "time to recover" before being extradited, his legal team says
After many previous hearings, the case returned to Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
Dewani's barrister, Clare Montgomery QC, said the process had been hanging over her client like "the sword of Damocles" and he needed "a period of calm".
Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle adjourned the hearing to September 18 for a psychiatrist employed by the South African government to examine Dewani and furnish the court with more information about his condition before making any other decision.
Dewani has previously pledged to clear his name.
Miss Montgomery said keeping Dewani under medical treatment in Britain for 12 months would increase the speed of her client's recovery rather then jeopardising it by sending him to South Africa.
She said that, according to his psychiatrist, Dewani was making a slow recovery but one damaging factor was his "constant awareness of the court proceedings".
Sound familiar?
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