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David Gilmour covers treatment for alleged computer hacker

Posted February 14, 2011 by Floydian Slip

According to Scotland’s Daily Record newspaper, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour is paying for psychiatric treatment for alleged computer hacker Gary KcKinnon (pictured).

McKinnon, a 45-year-old man from Glasgow who has Asperger’s Syndrome, has been fighting extradition to the United States for supposedly hacking into NASA and Pentagon networks a decade ago to search for evidence of UFOs.

He faces up to 60 years in prison if convicted.

Gilmour has been an advocate for McKinnon, participating in a charity re-recording of Graham Nash’s “Chicago” to benefit his defense and distributing updates about the case through his Web site and Twitter feed.

Government funding for McKinnon’s treatment was dropped last month due to cutbacks at the London National Health Service trust that was paying for his care.

One comment on “David Gilmour covers treatment for alleged computer hacker”

  1. CHRIS D says:

    THATS A SOCIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOR YOU,THATS WHY OBAMACARE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL,MAYBE ROGER WILL PAY FOR MY SCIATICA THERAPY


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