By Great North News staff reporter
It's a bad day for Gary McKinnon who today lost his battle in the European Court of Human Rights and faces extradition to the US in the next fortnight after allegedly hacking into dozens of US military computers looking for proof of extraterrestrial intelligence, or at least a CIA cover-up.
It is reported that he broke into the Pentagon's system from his London flat and left a message saying 'your security is crap.'
US officials allege that McKinnon caused around £354,000 worth of damage and severely threatened national security, rendering 200 computers unusable at a US navy weapons station immediately after 9/11. If extradited, he faces up to 70 years in prison and his lawyers have warned that he could even be given the death penalty. It is said that, using the codename Solo, McKinnon hacked into 97 US military and NASA computers.