Dave Howe wrote: > cause - which is *not* true in reverse, or for any other country. Up > until recently, the US authorities would have had to make a case for > extradition and/or arrest to a UK judge before the local plod would > even be informed that there was an interest in the kid....
Not that recent, I believe the original "treaty" (a touch one sided for a treaty) was signed in 1998. Peter