Man facing extradition to Portugal after being acquitted is being "hung out to dry," MP says He said he believed there had been an "administrative blunder" by the Portuguese police. British police told him he was wanted for "first-degree murder," although other paperwork refers to attempted murder and Mr Jorling is still alive, Mr Mitchell said. Conservative MP Dominic Raab, a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, said: "This is a double jeopardy case 18 years after the crime and they can't even get the charge right. How can you be accused of murder when the victim is still alive? He said there was a "whole range of problems" with the European arrest warrant and safeguards were needed. The fundamental problem is that there is an assumption that all European justice systems are the same. There are many justice systems across Europe that are either frankly corrupt or incompetent, and therefore buying into that assumption is not only a sham but we are hanging out our citizens to dry on a flawed premise. Mr Mitchell appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on March 7 after being arrested by Kent Police. His next court appearance will be on March 14. Jago Russell, chief executive of Fair Trials International, said: "Graham thought that he had left his ordeal in Portugal, in the past, but nearly 20 years later faces the threat of extradition. We hope that Portugal realises that it would be wrong to extradite Graham so many years after he was cleared, and that they withdraw the request. We fear that if they do not, there may be little chance of stopping the extradition under the UK's flawed extradition laws.