Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Now Paying Gary McKinnon’s Psych Bills

Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour is helping the mentally ill. Well, not really. Just one person who really isn’t crazy at all- Gary McKinnon, who is still doing his damnedest to avoid extradition to the United States to stand trial for criminally damaging NASA and DOD computer systems in his clumsy attempts to uncover evidence of UFO’s.

Gary McKinnon, who is faking aspergers and is claiming to be suicidal if he is shipped here, was ripping off the NHS for psych treatments. When those treatments stopped because he didn’t really need them, David Gilmour heroically stepped in to pay his quack doctor’s bills. And now his Mom is claiming that crazy runs deep in the McKinnon clan’s history.

From the Express here:

PINK FLOYD star David Gilmour is paying for psychiatric treatment for troubled Gary McKinnon after he was suddenly refused NHS funding while he fights extradition to the US on charges of hacking into military computers. The renowned guitarist, who supports mental health campaigns, decided to step in after the Asperger’s Syndrome sufferer became a victim of budget cutbacks at a London NHS Trust.

Glasgow-born McKinnon, 45, faces up to 60 years in a US jail for breaking into Nasa and Pentagon computers in 2001 and 2002 while looking for evidence of UFOs. Until last month he had been receiving treatment from Asperger’s expert Professor Jeremy Turk, who believes he will become a suicide risk if forced to go to America to face trial.

On his 17th birthday Gary’s Mom had deep concerns about his sudden mental deterioration and took him to a London neurologist, thinking he had a brain tumour.

Mr McKinnon’s great-grandmother, Christina Macleod, who was born in 1882, was committed to Woodilee Mental Hospital in Lenzie, near Glasgow, where she remained for 50 years until her death, aged 95. Ms Sharp said:

The hacker’s grandmother Margaret Totten, born in 1922, also suffered from depression and was mentally ill for most of her life. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia and died in March 1999.

So his whole family has a history of being nutjobs? Sounds to me that they also have a long history of prolonged incarceration. I’d hate to see a family tradition broken. Lets get McKinnon over here and have some justice, shall we?