**A Briton accused of hacking into secret military and Nasa computers has had his extradition to the US put on hold.**Glasgow-born Gary McKinnon, 42, was denied permission to appeal to the Supreme Court against his removal.
He then had 14 days to appeal to the European Court, but the Home Office has agreed to consider new evidence and has put that 14-day deadline on hold.
Mr McKinnon’s lawyers have submitted fresh psychiatric evidence to the Home Office, the Times newspaper reported.
Mr McKinnon, who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, could face life in jail if convicted of accessing 97 computers.
A Home Office spokesman said: "On 12 October his solicitors submitted further representations to the Home Secretary and we are considering what response to give to this latest material.
‘Some hope’
“In the meantime, we have confirmed to his solicitors that we do not consider the 14 days for a Strasbourg application as running.”
The Times reported Karen Todner, Mr McKinnon’s lawyer, as saying: "We do take some hope from this.
“It is the first time that [Home Secretary] Alan Johnson will have a proper opportunity to consider the reports in this case and it shows that he is taking it seriously. In the meantime we don’t want to be hammering on his door.”
Mr McKinnon has admitted breaking into the computers, but says he sought information on UFOs and only got in because of lax security.
The US government, however, insists he committed a malicious crime - the biggest military computer hack ever.
They say he stole passwords, deleted files and left 300 computers at a US navy weapons station unusable immediately after the September 11 terrorist attacks.