Updates on Tuesday, 28 June 2016
Lauri Love faces US extradition hearing
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Thanks for reading our live coverage today - which has been dominated by news of the extradition hearing of an alleged hacker from Stradishall to the US and the new season press conference from Ipswich Town Football Club
Join us again tomorrow morning from 08:00 for the latest news across the country.
Have a good evening.
Alex Dolan
BBC Look East weather
Tonight, turning cloudy across the region with outbreaks of rain, some heavy. Rain clearing later with some clear spells developing by the end of the night. Lows of 9C (48F).
Tomorrow, dry at first with sunny spells but turning cloudy with rain pushing in from the west. Rain expected to arrive earlier than on Tuesday. Rather breezy and cool. Highs of 18C (64F).
Nic Rigby
BBC News
A man, threatened with extradition to the USA over allegations he hacked government computers after suffering mental health problems, is now helping to advise firms about IT security, Westminster magistrates have heard.
Image source, PAReverend Alexander Love, who described his son Lauri as having a "strong ethical imperative", said he now puts his skills to use running a business with a friend advising companies how to beef up their cyber security.
His father said: "He seems to be gainfully using his knowledge for the betterment of others and I find that to be quite gratifying."
But he also told the court "it is breaking my soul to be saying things like this", adding that taking Mr Love from his parents to face legal proceedings in the three American jurisdictions where he is wanted - New York, New Jersey and Virginia - would lead him to "despair".
He said: "I just see my son going to America for decades and not being able to come back."
Nic Rigby
BBC News
The court hearing the request to extradite alleged computer hacker Lauri Love to the US has heard that as well as Asperger Syndrome, external - which was diagnosed later in his life - Mr Love suffers from depression, anxiety psychosis and suicidal thoughts.
His father Reverend Alexander Love said his son, who has two cousins who are also autistic, was "exceptionally gifted" and highly intelligent, but developed mental health problems while at school, losing all his hair from stress.
While his parents were "dazzled by his brilliance", Mr Love told them he felt his life was pointless.
He tried to move to Finland, his mother's native country, but came back after a few months "a mess, very down, feeling like a failure".
A move to university in Nottingham ended in the second term after a physical and mental breakdown which saw his skin conditions worsening and the development of bronchial infections.
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP Dr Dan Poulter has backed Boris Johnson, external to be the next Prime Minister.
Nic Rigby
BBC News
International pop star Taylor Swift and her new boyfriend The Night Manager actor Tom Hiddleston have been spotted walking along a beach in Aldeburgh over the weekend.
Image source, APIt's not the first time Ms Swift has enjoyed the delights of Suffolk, having been photographed in The Station, Framlingham, where she had a drink with her friend singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran, who grew up nearby.
Image source, Alice Dearlove/BBC
Kim Riley
BBC Look East
One of the many claims made since the vote to leave the European Union is that politicians have lost touch with the people they represent.
We've been to one of the region's biggest housing estates - the Chantry Estate in Ipswich - to find out if that's true.
Brexit: The view from the Chantry Estate in Ipswich
Richard Haugh
BBC Introducing in Suffolk
Promoter SoapBox, external continues its impressive run of gigs at the John Peel Centre in Stowmarket tomorrow night, with a poet Kerrang apparently described as "everything The Daily Mail is afraid of".
Image source, ContributedSalena Godden, external tops the bill and will be joined by Tom the Zeingineer and Tess Gardener.
There will also be music from Bessie Turner, who we've featured on BBC Introducing in Suffolk and whose live performances I've only heard good things about.
Nic Rigby
BBC News
The QD Stores shop in Lowestoft has closed, the firm has confirmed.
The store, in London Road North, had been a Woolworths shop before it was taken over.
Peter Muir, a spokesman for QD Stores, said the firm had hoped to "return the store to commercial viability, unfortunately this has not come to fruition, leaving QD with no option but to close the shop".
"It’s a very disappointing decision to have to make. The company has traded in Lowestoft since 1989, with two stores operating in town for some years," he said.
"As you will know, the store on London Road North was a former Woolworths outlet acquired on pre-recession rent levels which have not subsequently adjusted to reduced customer footfall with consequent decline in trading."
A QD Stores shop in Ipswich has also closed about a week ago.
A man who died after a car left the A12 at Wangford has been named by police as 63-year-old Ian Rayner, from Sotherton, near Beccles.
Police were called on Sunday evening to reports a Vauxhall Vectra car had left the A12 carriageway at London Road, Wangford, and come to rest in a field.
Mr Rayner, from Sotherton Corner, died at the scene.
The British Museum is tweeting a mystery object from the Westhall Hoard, external discovered in 1855.
Andrew Woodger
BBC News
The Suffolk man accused of hacking into US government computers sat in court and made roses out of coloured paper and crafted an intricate geometric star.
Court reporter Dominic Harris said Lauri Love has sat in the dock at Westminster Magistrates' Court and listened to evidence and arguments from his lawyer.
The 31-year-old, who has Aspergers, is fighting an attempt by the US authorities to have him tried in the US courts.
Nic Rigby
BBC News
A psychologist has told an extradition hearing into the case of Lauri Love - accused of hacking into US government computers - that Mr Love has the developmental disorder Asperger Syndrome, and has researched how to kill himself.
Image source, PAProf Simon Baron Cohen told Westminster magistrates that "about two thirds of people with Asperger's have suicidal thoughts... the overwhelming priority is to keep him (Lauri Love) alive".
He said: "About a third go on to make suicide plans like Lauri has.
"I think it would be a risk to think this is all fantasy. He's spent hours researching how to do this. There is no doubt he has Asperger Syndrome."
Andrew Woodger
BBC News
Lauri Love's lawyer Ben Cooper told Westminster Magistrates' Court that British Home Secretary Theresa May introduced a "forum bar", which allows courts to block extradition if it is in the interests of justice to have the person tried in Britain.
Image source, Shaun CurryHe argued that Mr Love, of Stradishall, had mental health issues and his case was similar to Gary McKinnon - another British citizen who won a 2012 case not to be extradited to the US.
Mr Cooper said: "If ever there was a case for the forum bar to succeed, this would be it."
Andrew Woodger
BBC News
Lawyers for Lauri Love say his case is comparable to Gary McKinnon - another British man accused of hacking into US government computers.
Mr McKinnon had Aspergers and was spared extradition after Home Secretary Theresa May intervened.
Ben Cooper, lawyer for Mr Love, told Westminster Magistrates' Court his client's case was "almost identical" to Mr McKinnon's.
A vicar tells a court that his son "is likely to kill himself" if extradited to the US to face cyber-crime allegations.
A vicar tells a court that his son "is likely to kill himself" if extradited to the US to face cyber-crime allegations.
Read MoreThe court heard Lauri Love, an electrical engineering student at the University Campus Suffolk, is accused of working with others to carry out a series of sophisticated cyber attacks on computer networks in the US from the UK.
He allegedly broke in via the "back door" to access personal information of thousands of government staff, as well as credit card details.
Alexander Love told Westminster Magistrates' Court he had experience of working with vulnerable people at risk of suicide, and said it was "highly likely" that this would be his son's fate if he was extradited.
"Lauri is somebody who strikes me as somebody who will do this," he said. "The probability is quite high."
Mr Love, a prison chaplain, added the "bitter experience" of leading funerals for people who had killed themselves led to the regret that everyone has, "that they didn't see it coming".
Pleading for his son not to be extradited, he said: "In Lauri's case we do see it coming, that is the big difference."
Nic Rigby
BBC News
When Lauri Love spoke to me in August last year he told me of his concerns about the prospect of extradition to the US and the stress it had put on him and his family since his arrest in October 2013.
"I would say my prospects of due process in America are essentially zero, and the prospect of extradition is tantamount to a punishment worse than any punishment from the UK justice system," he said.
"My parents and me are quite stressed. I have had time to acclimatise. My dad has had a heart condition and my mum is a natural worrier."
He said that as the alleged crimes took place in the UK that is where he should be tried.
"The charges should be heard here... where 12 of my peers should be found to try me," said Mr Love.
Nic Rigby
BBC News
The story of Lauri Love's battle with the UK and US authorities started in October 2013 when he was arrested by the National Crime Agency (NCA) as part of a joint investigation with the FBI in the US.
Image source, Family of Lauri LoveAccording to the US authorities, Mr Love, 31, who lives in Stradishall with his parents, hacked into systems of the US Army, Nasa and the Environmental Protection Agency, among others.
US authorities, including the army, allege that information accessed included budgets, the disposal of military facilities, and personal information on thousands of people, including military personnel.
Mr Love, who was involved in student protests in Glasgow in 2010-11, was released from bail by the NCA, the Crown Prosecution Service said in July 2014, but he was rearrested in July 2015 by the Met on behalf of US authorities in their bid to extradite him.
In May this year a bid by the NCA to force Mr Love to hand over encrypted computer passwords was thrown out by a judge.
