It wasn't a good day for Gary McKinnon, the Pentagon hacker, who today had his appeal against extradition to the US turned down by the House of Lords.
He wasn't at parliament to hear the judgment, but I spoke to him on the phone this afternoon to see how things were going: "Not good," he said (perhaps unsurprisingly). "I'm very disappointed and very angry, but not too surprised." Next step, he said, was to try and send the appeal over to the European Court of Human Rights.
Wouldn't he rather the ordeal was over? Of course, but "right now I'd be quite glad of a two-year delay," he said. "It's better than being handed over to US Marshals and being put on a plane straight away."
