The Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate had not been entitled to conclude on the material before him that the applicant was unlawfully at large within s.9(8)(b) Extradition Act 1989, and accordingly he had erred in committing the applicant to custody. * Application for leave to appeal to the House of Lords pending.

DC (Lord Bingham of Cornhill LCJ, Morison J)

22/05/2000