To be fair, if the hack was carried out by a Scottish hacker, from Scotland, then he should be prosecuted in Scotland. The UK's policy with regards to this sort

To be fair, if the hack was carried out by a Scottish hacker, from Scotland, then he should be prosecuted in Scotland. The UK's policy with regards to this sort of thing is an absolute shambles, as illustrated by the Gary McKinnon affair[1]. If the FBI simply failed to supply any evidence to support a prosecution, one has to ask why they victimised Keys, while letting the actual perpetrator off scot-free. No pun intended. 1: There waws absolutely no reason why McKinnon couldn't have been prosecuted in the UK but when his solicitor claimed that no crime had been committed in the UK because the computers McKinnon had hacked were outside the UK (which is incorrect - the Computer Misuse Act applies to hacks where either the perpetrator or the target is in the UK), they made the monumentally stupid decision to try to extradite him, with the end result that he was never prosecuted or punished for his criminal activity.