[Carry_Okie]

I don't buy that habeas corpus applies to aliens, else British law applies to everybody on the planet. The US exercises similar hubris in its unconstitutional application of the 14th Amendment.

[Winniesboy]

British law certainly does apply to 'everybody on the planet' if they happen (as in this case) to be in Britain at the time of their arrest, are suspected of having committed offences on British territory, and are subsequently held in Britain. It's in almost every respect the antithesis of, say, the Guantanamo scenario, where offence, arrest and detention all happened outside the territory of the detaining country.