British businessman Ian Norris loses extradition battle

By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor Published: 3:40PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Ian Norris, the former arch senior manager of Morgan Crucible, has unsuccessful at the Supreme Court to equivocate extradition to the United States where he faces charges of division justice. Photo: Tom Stockill.

Ian Norris, the 67-year-old late arch senior manager of engineering association Morgan Crucible, is fighting a ask by America who wish to assign him with division justice. Britain"s tip probity discharged an seductiveness on Wednesday.

His lawyers pronounced the extradition arrangements in between the dual countries nude adults of "fundamental protections" and right away goal to take the box to the European Court of Human Rights.

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As a result, it is doubtful Mr Norris will be sent to America until a preference is done on either the European Court will listen to the case.

The box comes as computer hacker Gary McKinnon continues his quarrel opposite extradition to America.

Mr Norris won a statute in 2008 from the afterwards House of Lords that shut off his removal to the US on price-fixing charges.

But the US supervision pursued him over associated charges of division probity and was successful in the reduce UK courts.

In Nov last year Mr Norris appealed opposite those rulings to the new Supreme Court, arguing that extradition would means such repairs to his and his wife"s mental and earthy health that it would be exclusive with his right to in isolation and family hold up underneath the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Supreme Court unanimously discharged his seductiveness on the drift that any division to his family hold up did not transcend open interest.

Jonathan Sumption QC, for Mr Norris, had argued that it would not offer the interests of preventing crime to extradite "a sick, late man of 66 whose mother suffers from a serious depressive episode, so that he might face a auxiliary assign of division a United States review of price-fixing".

He pronounced the "main stuffing" of the box opposite Mr Norris had been knocked out by the prior preference of the House of Lords in his case.

The outcome of extradition would be a "disproportionate interference" with the right to a in isolation and family hold up for Mr Norris and his mother underneath the European Convention on Human Rights.

Mr Norris and his wife, Sheila, 65, have been together for 50 years and are both in bad health.

The probity listened that Mr Norris was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000 and nonetheless it was right away in discount he suffers from most health problems and was reliant on his mother for his every day nursing needs.