Brown urged deal on US hacking case

Former prime minister Gordon Brown tried to strike a deal with Washington to allow a Briton accused of hacking into US military computers to serve any sentence in Britain, classified US diplomatic cables showed yesterday.
Gary McKinnon, 43, who suffers from a form of autism, could face life in prison if convicted by a US court of gaining access to 97 US Navy and Nasa computers in 2001 and 2002. He says he was looking for evidence of UFOs.
US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show that Brown suggested in an August 2009 meeting with the US ambassador to London, Louis Susman, that McKinnon plead guilty in return for serving any jail term in a British jail.