(24 Jan 2025)
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London, UK – 24 January 2025
1. Various exteriors of Westminster Magistrates’ Court
2. Various of Edward Fitzgerald, defense attorney for suspect Kimberlee Singler, arriving at courthouse
STORYLINE:
A London judge on Friday rejected a U.S. mother’s challenge to be extradited to Colorado to face murder charges in the deaths of two of her young children.
Judge John Zani said in Westminster Magistrates’ Court that it would now be up to the British Home Secretary to order Kimberlee Singler returned to the U.S.
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 in Colorado if convicted 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.
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