‘Let Jack go free’ — Defence, State attorneys want extradition quashed

For­mer Fi­fa vice pres­i­dent Jack Warn­er seems set to be freed of the threat of ex­tra­di­tion al­most ex­act­ly a decade af­ter the Unit­ed States first re­quest­ed that he face tri­al for al­leged cor­rup­tion com­mit­ted dur­ing his ca­reer at world foot­ball’s gov­ern­ing body.

High Court Judge Karen Reid was called up­on to quash Warn­er’s long-pend­ing ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings as his most re­cent civ­il law­suit chal­leng­ing the han­dling of the US’s re­quest came up for hear­ing yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The call made by Warn­er’s lawyers, led by Se­nior Coun­sel Fyard Ho­sein, SC, based on ma­jor con­ces­sions made by At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie, SC, dur­ing a pre­vi­ous hear­ing last month, was sup­port­ed by British at­tor­ney Robert Strang, who rep­re­sent­ed the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al at the hear­ing.