(24 Jan 2025)
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London, UK – 24 January 2025
1. Exterior of Westminster Magistrates’ Court
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Edward Fitzgerald, defense attorney for Kimberlee Singler:
"The district judge has ruled against Kimberlee Singler, but she has the right of appeal, and she’s instructed us that she does wish to appeal. So we will be appealing the case to the High Court in England."
3. Close of courthouse sign
STORYLINE:
A London judge on Friday rejected a U.S. mother’s challenge to her extradition to face murder charges in Colorado in the deaths of two of her young children.
The ruling by Judge John Zani at Westminster Magistrates’ Court clears the way for the British government to order Kimberlee Singler’s return to America.
Singler, 36, is accused of two counts of first-degree murder in the December 2023 shooting and stabbings of her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son, and one count of attempted murder in the slashing of her 11-year-old daughter with a knife.
She also faces three counts of child abuse and one count of assault.
Singler’s attorney had argued that sending her back to the U.S. would violate European human rights law, in part, because she faces a sentence of life in prison without parole if convicted in Colorado of first-degree murder.
Such a sentence would be inhumane because it offers no prospect for release even if she is rehabilitated, attorney Edward Fitzgerald said.
Fitzgerald said that despite an option for a Colorado governor to commute her sentence at some point, it would be “political suicide” to do so.
"The district judge has ruled against Kimberlee Singler, but she has the right of appeal, and she’s instructed us that she does wish to appeal. So we will be appealing the case to the High Court in England," Fitzgerald told The Associated Press.
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