Dear Alan Johnson

I have written to you before regarding the extradition of Gary McKinnon, and while I am grateful for your reply, I must say I was dismayed by the misleading and inaccurate quality of the information therein.

I am even more dismayed by your recent decision not to halt the extradition of Mr McKinnon, which I understand by all accounts bar your own is well within your discretion in this case.

I am shocked by the breathtaking contempt that you have shown for the Select Committee, for British justice, for the traditional British values of integrity, compassion and fair play, and for the welfare and human rights of Mr McKinnon and his family. Your insistence that Mr McKinnon's lawyers submit their application for Judicial Review within fourteen days instead of the customary three months is vindictive in the extreme and it beggars belief that a man whose self-confessed worst fear is something happening to his own child could deliberately choose to inflict this trauma on Gary McKinnon, a harmless and vulnerable son with a highly relevant disability.

I urge you once again to reconsider your decision and to halt this unnecessary extradition. The US response is grossly disproportionate to the crime that was committed, as any reasonable person can see.

I will not trouble to critique your response to questions in the House of Commons on Tuesday, except to say that it was disingenuous in the extreme the way you sought to manipulate the facts and mislead the House. No-one was fooled. No-one is fooled either by your oft-repeated remark that successive court judgements have not found in Gary's favour. This is no more evidence for the legitimacy of this extradition, than of a gross and highly disturbing lack of integrity at the highest levels throughout this case.

I believe you are able to tell right from wrong, and I believe that you know very well that what you are doing is wrong. What you are doing to Gary McKinnon is wrong, and what you are doing to public confidence in your Office is wrong. It is clear that any reasonable person, with any legal, medical, or computer expertise, or indeed with any common sense at all, would halt the extradition forthwith.

I therefore urge you once again, to please reconsider your decision, stop this cruel folly, and halt the extradition.

(This letter just came in from a tweeter)