-After being denied an appeal on Friday to argue his case before the British Supreme Court, Gary McKinnon , who faces extradition to the United States for hacking into NASA computers, is making a last-ditch appeal to the country's Home Secretary Alan Johnson. The basis of the appeal is a new confidential assessment outlining McKinnon's deteriorating health, and the potentially devastating effect extradition could have on him, according to a BBC report.

Lawyers for the Home Secretary have agreed to delay moves to extradite Gary McKinnon, the computer hacker, pending a review of fresh psychiatric evidence.Last week Mr McKinnon, who has Asperger’s syndrome, was refused permission to take his case to the Supreme Court and faced 14 days to make representations. But government lawyers have now said that they will set aside the 14-day deadline to take time for consideration of the evidence.Karen Todner, Mr McKinnon’s lawyer, said: “We do take some hope from this. It is the first time that 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, 43, from North London, is wanted by US prosecutors for what they have called the “biggest military computer hack of all time”. He faces up to 70 years in prison if convicted.