Posted on 01/21/2015 12:37:59 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
Tobias Bowen, 48, allowed to stay in Britain after Westminster court ruling Doctor fled New York while on $10,000 bail charged with two counts of rape Judges have ruled that his human rights will be breached if he is extradited Bowen ran hospital in Liberia but was charged in New York in March 2010
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OK, thanks for the correction - I just remembered they were going to extradite him and at least a lower court OK’ed that.
But what’s really strange is that they would extradite their own citizens (examples provided in article) and refuse extradition of a foreign national. OK, each case is judged on its own merits, but no country should ever extradite their own citizens. Try them at home if you must.
The article does not give enough information to decide whether this is scandalous or whether Britain is simply refusing to extradite for something that would not have been a crime in the UK.
The article tells us the alleged “raping a child” took place in New York. If the “child” was a 16 or 17 year old and the alleged rape was not forcible, but was from the “child’s” point of view, if not the point of view of New York law, consensual, then any sexual intercourse which formed the basis for the rape charge would not have been rape under British law, since the age of consent in the UK is 16, and I see no reason why they should extradite.
I may still have distant kin around Nutsford.
Is it the act, or joining the EU and giving away sovereignty that is the problem?
From the newspaper article referenced earlier...
The first two counts accuse Bowen of having sexual contact with a female under the age of 18, deputies said. The third count accuses Bowen of having sexual contact with a female under the age of 13 between July and this month, deputies said. The sheriff’s office investigation began on March 16.
It appears there was a under 13 year old child involved. An offense in either country.
The issue is that they think he will get some indefinite period of imprisonment. I’m not sure how they come up with that.
And I am sure British people have a similar ‘high’ opinion of the US.
McKinnon is almost as old as me, and I am 40+, lol.
That’s why there was a public campaign to stop his extradition. Many find the US-UK agreement lopsided, and many asked why a Brit (and one with Aspergers) couldn’t be tried in the UK, as he committed the acts sitting at a UK computer.
In my case, both. I want out of the EU, and the HRA is a disaster. Even some pro-Euros think it needs scrapping or changing. A ‘free’ UK would bring in its own modern Bill Of Rights (we already have the acts of 1688 and 1689) to protect human rights, but subject to British laws and parliament, not Europe. And designed to stop the abuses we see.
Aye, Scotland’s rubbish, lol.
Would seem like a good move to deport Bowen to Liberia. Maybe arrange for him to work in an ebola hospital. It would be good therapy for him.
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