Unfair Extradition UK / US without evidence
Brian Howes
My name is Brian Howes and I have not broken any laws yet my wife and I have spent 214 days in jail without charge. We have no criminal records and were running a respectable chemicals supply company. We were arrested to be extradited to the US with no evidence against us. We had 5 minutes separately with a duty solicitor in Edinburgh Sheriffs Court; the duty solicitor said they only want you so if you sign to go Kerry can go home. I had not broken any laws and fully expected to go home anyway but as I was taken up the stairs to the court Kerry now my Wife was coming down the stairs crying and saying she was going to prison. After entering the court the Prosecutor said I was in increased danger of supplying more chemicals to the America and we had access to large amounts of money. Later I found that the day before our remand to prison our company and chemicals had been taken over by the police and the small amount of money in our bank was frozen.
Our four young girls spent 214 days living with their granny when they should have been home with us.
After six months of being away from our children and each other I was told the US had no intentions of allowing bail so I started a hunger strike in protest of our treatment, after being in hospital and on the 31st day of August we got bail and picked our gorgeous girls up who had been traumatised from our family separation. Physiological reports show a severe effect on our children.
There has been no accountability for anything that has happened to us. We are on legal aid and are denied senior council at every stage. We lost our battle in the sheriff’s court and now we face the high court. We have been told because we live in Scotland we can’t appeal to the House of Lords or the European Court Of Human Rights.
We have many letters and emails of support from Members of Parliament like Nick Clegg and many more from all parties but sympathy and disagreement with our situation won’t stop extradition.
We live in fear of what might happen, my wife Kerry is suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome and severe depression and I am helpless to help her.
Our kids are happy but another separation and care would be a total injustice.
I have offered myself to the US more than once and they play mind games and change the deals until a deal is not possible.
If a judge can’t look at evidence how can an innocent couple fight extradition.
There are people that have said why not go and prove you are innocent but when some of the enditements are not against UK law how can you do that?
If we are extradited to America we will be both in prisons in Arizona and because we will have public defenders it will take three years or more to go to trial, so if we win we lose because our children are our lives and without them or each other we would not survive that long.
We have also been told that our two year old daughter and five year old would most certainly be adopted and we would have no further rights over them as the bond would be gone after so long.
So can somebody tell me out there what to do next? I sign at the police station twice a day a curfew from 8pm to 8am and my wife signs between that. Every visit to court means another attempted bail revocation. Where is the protection for my family in from the Government?
We will fight to the end but I feel it will truly be the end.
If you do not agree with the UK Goverment. Support my family against extradition to the US without evidence by leaving comments on the site linl above. Thank you, The Howes Family.