One day our government will apologise for allowing this destroyer of basic British freedoms, the European Arrest Warrant (EAW), to be given legal status in the UK State of the EU. What more evidence does it need than the case of Edmond Arapi, a Staffordshire father of three, accused and convicted by Italian authorities of a murder, he didn't commit despite being able to prove that he was in England at the time. But, under the terms of the EAW, the evidence isn't tested before extradition is granted to an EU State with a very different idea of justice to that held by British subjects.

Unusually, this story had a happy ending but not before Mr Arapi spent a year fighting extradition.

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