Overview
- District Judge Samuel Goozee found no legal bar to extradition at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday.
- The Home Secretary must now decide on surrender, with San Diego able to challenge any order at the High Court.
- San Diego, 47, is accused over 2003 blasts at Chiron in Emeryville and Shaklee in Pleasanton that caused no injuries, with authorities saying one device appeared intended to harm first responders.
- He was arrested in November 2024 at a rural property near Maenan in Conwy while using the name Danny Webb and an Irish passport, and a distinctive chest tattoo helped confirm his identity.
- The judge rejected defence claims of likely presidential or Justice Department interference as unsupported, while U.S. prosecutors pursue explosives-related charges first filed in 2004 after a years-long FBI manhunt and a $250,000 reward.