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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Judge quashes Home Office’s decision on US extradition of vulnerable man

Diogo Santos Coelho
Diogo Santos Coelho said the high court ruling ‘feels like the first ray of light’ in his case. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

A high court judge has quashed a Home Office decision that paved the way for a vulnerable autistic man to be extradited to the US on cybercrime charges carrying a possible 52-year sentence.

The UK government has accepted that Diogo Santos Coelho, 25, a Portuguese national, was groomed and exploited online by adults from the age of 14, leading to him setting up the website RaidForums, to which the alleged crimes relate.

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