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“Let Jack go free,” was the impassioned plea by his lead attorney to the High Court on September 12, after several concessions by the Attorney General that the arrangement between the United States and Trinidad and Tobago for the extradition of former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner was flawed.

Warner’s attorney, Fyard Hosein, SC, urged Justice Karen Reid to free his client, declaring that the State’s decade-long effort to extradite Warner was built on “fraud, lies, and unconstitutional acts.”

Hosein told Justice Karen Reid that no lawful extradition arrangement existed between Trinidad and Tobago and the United States when the 2015 authority to proceed (ATP) with the extradition was issued. He accused former attorneys general and senior state lawyers of deliberately misleading the High Court, Court of Appeal, and Privy Council by insisting on a “bespoke” agreement that never existed.