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UK Hacker Ryan Cleary Has Asperger's Syndrome, Court Told

Posted by timothy on from the aerosolized-weapons-grade-asperger's dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ryan Cleary, the British teenager accused of launching DDoS attacks at the likes of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a court heard [Saturday]."

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  1. Re:Aspergers is not a "get out of jail free" card by Goose+In+Orbit · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...except...

    a) He hasn't failed to be exempted from extradition - it's still being looked at by the Home Office
    b) He's not asking for a "get out of jail free" card - it's about being tried (and, if found guilty) imprisoned in the UK rather than the US
    c) The "Aspergers defence" only arose - some years after the event - because Simon Baron-Cohen saw an interview with him and suggested he may be suffering from the condition