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Britain refuses to extradite nonce to US - sex offender programme breaches his human rights.

America’s most wanted paedophile wins fight to stop extradition from UK on grounds it will breach his human rights to be put into a sex offenders' treatment programme.

Shawn Sullivan has been a wanted man since 1994 for allegedly molesting two 11-year-old girls and having unlawful sex with a girl of 14.

US Government refused to give assurances he wouldn't be placed on the 'civil commitment' programme. Under civil commitment ,someone could be held with no hope of release even if not convicted of any offence. Sullivan lives in London with his wife, who works for the Ministry of Justice.

Another example of the one-sided Extradition Act

One of America's most-wanted paedophiles can walk the streets of Britain a free man after the High Court ruled that extraditing him to the US would breach his human rights.

Convicted paedophile, Shawn Sullivan, has been a wanted man since 1994 for allegedly molesting two 11-year-old girls and having unlawful sex with a girl of 14 in Minnesota.

If extradited to America and found guilty, he could face 25 years jail on each count.

But two senior judges demanded assurances from the US Government that Sullivan - who lives in the affluent London suburb of Barnes with his Ministry of Justice worker wife - would not be put into a controversial sex offenders' treatment programme.

Shawn Sullivan, a paedophile who is one of America's most wanted men, will be allowed to stay in the UK with his partner, 34-year-old MoJ policy manager Sarah Smith

Today they refused to comply, and so the judges turned down the plea to return him to the US.

Lord Justice Moses and Mr Justice Eady both believe the programme, known as 'civil commitment', would be a 'flagrant denial' of his rights under the European Convention on Human Rights.

But critics will see it as another example of the one-sided extradition treaty between the two countries.

Last week it emerged that seven times more British citizens have been sent to the US under the lopsided Extradition Act than Americans sent in the opposite direction.

Home Office figures reveal how the treaty at the centre of the case against Asperger’s sufferer Gary McKinnon is being used by the US authorities far more often than their British counterparts.

Sullivan, who has joint Irish/US nationality - who also goes under the name O'Suilleabhain - was given a suspended jail sentence in Ireland in 1996 for sexually assaulting two 12-year-old girls.

He was arrested in London in June 2010 while living with 34-year-old MoJ policy manager, Sarah Smith, in Barnes, South West London. They married in Wandsworth Prison before he was granted bail and tagged.

But lawyers for Sullivan, who has been put on America's Most-Wanted Sex Criminals List, said if returned he could be declared 'sexually dangerous' and jailed without trial and with no hope of release.

The judges gave the US authorities until today to give an assurance that he would not be put on the civil commitment programme and be given a fair trial.

Sullivan was given a suspended jail sentence in Ireland in 1996 for sexually assaulting two 12-year-old girls

Today Lord Justice Moses confirmed that that 'the United States will not provide an assurance' that Sullivan would not be entered into the programme.

As a result his appeal would be allowed and extradition refused.

Sullivan originally from Fort Benning, Georgia, has remained here pending extradition proceedings.

Although on the list of America's Most Wanted Criminals, he went undetected until 2007 when he was added to Interpol's Most Wanted List.

In December, 2010, Senior District Judge Riddle said there was no reason not to order extradition and sent the request from the US Government Home Secretary Theresa May.

In February last year. she rejected representations on his behalf and ordered extradition.

But in refusing to give the go ahead Lord Justice Moses said there was a 'real risk' that if sent back his rights under the European Convention on Human Rights might be violated.

Under civil commitment, the court was told, someone could be held with no hope of release even though they had not been convicted of any offence.

Lord Justice Moses added, 'I emphasise again that my judgment rests solely on my conclusion that the is a real risk that if extradited the appellant might be subject to an order for civil commitment within Minnesota, and that that amounts to a risk that he would suffer a flagrant denial of his rights.'

He said under the programme, 'There is no requirement that the offences took place recently, nor, indeed, that the misconduct resulted in conviction, provided that the misconduct is substantiated by credible evidence.'

He said because the United States may now wish to given an assurance and because if he allowed the appeal it may be to no avail, he was adjourning the case for further argument.

Mr. Justice Eady agreed and said the material before them 'reveals that there is more than a fanciful risk that the appellant would become subject to the civil commitment process'.

In the absence of any undertaking 'he would suffer a flagrant breach of his rights' under the Convention, which protects against loss of liberty without a proper hearing.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...dition-UK.html

Photos of the piece of shit and Sarah Smith.

I never heard of this scumbag! He did a great job of hiding! And the UK had done a great job of protecting this piece of shit!

[Steve]

I just read about this 20 minutes ago, and yes the law is an ass, fuck him and his human rights, he wasn't thinking about the poor kids human fucking rights was he when he nonced them.

[K9Grip]

Why is it that the criminal's always have more rights than the victims? This POS should be behind bars. And this is for the dumb shit who married him

[Faline]

Fucking pathetic but i aren't the least bit surprised by this

[mcpronoun]

Twenty crowns to the person that beats this man to death, or "accidently" pushes him under a trolly or lorry or tram... etc..

[KKSki]

If I found out that I married a pedofile. I'd beat him to death myself. Boom! problem solved. She's gross for still being with him. She'll probably be dumb enough to have children with him. You can guess what happens from there. DISGUSTING SLOB.

[bluepinktriangle]

I don't agree with what he has or has not done (not convicted yet), But no one should be kept anywhere with no possibility of release without being convicted of crime.
I agree with the courts.

[kellyhound]

I'm more wondering what the fuck is wrong with that cunt marrying him

[luton loyal]

shameful

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Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

I'm more wondering what the fuck is wrong with that cunt marrying him

She's probably a relative and that coat and scarf are ugly, lol!