High Court refuses extradition order to US for mother and gran

The High Court has refused an application by the United States to extradite an American woman and her mother, wanted for taking the woman’s two children out of their home state in an alleged breach of an access order.

Today Mr Justice Michael Peart said he was refusing to make the order in respect of both women on number of points, including the issue of “correspondence” which he described as an” insurmountable difficulty”.