McNabb in the News (6/28/06) 1

Senior Principal Douglas McNabb has been quoted by the Times of London in an article about the NatWest Three’s pending extradition to the United States.

THE NatWest Three will be taken into the custody of US marshals and the FBI in Britain by July 17, just 28 days after the House of Lords refused to hear their petition.

According to Douglas McNabb, an American lawyer specialising in extradition, they will then be handcuffed and chained to each other at the waist and ankles.

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American law stipulates that the men must be taken before a federal judge for a bail hearing on the next business day after their arrival.

They are unlikely to be given bail, as the judge will treat them as fugitives because they contested the extradition, according to Mr McNabb, who testified about the US legal process during the extradition hearings for the three bankers.

“The only reason that they will be in the US is because they were brought kicking and screaming over the Atlantic,” Mr McNabb said.

If the men arrive in New York, they will be sent a week later to a holding station in Oklahoma City. They may then wait a month before the marshals find an aircraft to transport them to Houston.

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Mr McNabb said that the trial will be unusual as more than two dozen witnesses must fly into Houston from abroad, while many of the documents in the case are in Britain.

Delays could mean that the three men will be held at the prison for more than a year before their trial begins.^[1]

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[1] Liz Chong, Bankers Could Face a Year in Houston Jail Before Any Trial, The Times (UK), Jun. 28, 2006.