2022-02-24
Court wants more info in sex offender's fight against extradition to 'inhumane' US
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He was later sentenced to a detention period of not more than a year and not less than 240 days for attempting to entice a child for indecent purposes. In response, Patrick McGrath SC, for the Attorney General, said Mr Justice Burns had been entitled to reach his decision and that Wall was being returned to the US "to serve a sentence of imprisonment". "This is not a case where the appellant would be required to live in tent," he said. "The likely outcome in this case is that he would receive a period of detention." Last October, the High Court was told that in February 2012 Wall had pleaded guilty through plea-bargain to attempting to entice a child for indecent purposes.; Wall, who was remanded in custody last November, appealed Mr Justice Burns' decision, claiming the judge failed "to carry out any further analysis as to whether the appellant would be subject to inhumane and degrading treatment" on his return to the US.