Police chief criticises UK extradition law ahead of Home Office review
originally published by: The Guardian
3rd September 2010
The chief constable for Cambridgeshire has sharply criticised extradition rules as the Home Office prepares to announce a review of existing arrangements, including those with the US and EU countries.
Julie Spence, whose force devoted more than a year to trying to bring German doctor Daniel Ubani back to the UK after he accidentally killed a patient on his first UK shift in February 2008, alleged the process “was in some way circumvented by the German authorities,” saying the episode had been “deeply distressing for myself and officers.”
She added that “there is something wrong with a process that allows that to happen and I think there are deep discussions required between member countries to ensure that doesn’t happen again.”
Spence’s comments, in a BBC Look East interview, are likely to increase the row over the way the cases of Ubani and others have been handled, despite the Home Office insisting to the Guardian that German authorities had acted legally in refusing to extradite Ubani and prosecuting him themselves.
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