Saving Lauri Love: activists devise their subsequent move

Another of Love’s friends, Wesley Hall, who had trafficked from a north of England to attend a meeting, said: “We don’t wish Lauri to go by what Aaron Swartz – who committed self-murder in a US after confronting a prolonged jail judgment for hacking – did.

“If he was to be extradited, it would open a doorway to so many exposed children being taken from a UK.”

Ilva Letoja, who works in a gift sector, pronounced if Love was sent to a US prison, “he would be underneath self-murder watch, that is unique confinement, that is torture”.

She suggested that stream laws should be revisited, adding that Lauri and others like him could make a outrageous grant to society.

Another supporter, Patrick McElliott, said: “It’s unequivocally critical for people like Lauri to have a lot of support around him. If he loses, it could have unequivocally serious consequences.”

Writing for Computer Weekly, former hacker Gary McKinnon described a vigour of confronting extradition as “corrosive”. He pronounced “the continuous worrying cooking divided during your nerves” and described how he bought remedy to kill himself rather than face hearing in a US.