UK judge confirms mum WILL be extradited to US to face two kids' murder charges A UK judge has confirmed an American mother will be extradited to the US to face murder charges over the deaths of her two children.
Her lawyer Edward Fitzgerald argued sending her to the US would be a violation of European human rights laws, as she would face prison without parole should she be convicted of first-degree murder.
Experts for the defence originally argued a life sentence had not been commuted in Colorado but it was later learned then-Governor John Hickenlooper commuted the life sentences of five men convicted of murder in 2018, the Associated Press reported.
"I am of the firm opinion that the defendant's extradition to the United States of America to face criminal prosecution complies with all of her Convention Rights within the meaning of the Human Rights Act 1998," Judge Zani said, according to the BBC.
Judge John Zani told Westminster Magistrates' Court today that British Home Secretary to order Kimnerlee Singler to return to the state of Colorado.
