A Moroccan court has rejected a request from Britain to extradite a cage fighter wanted for questioning over the £53 million Securitas robbery.
The country's supreme court ruled on Thursday that Lee Lamrani Ibrahim Murray is a Moroccan citizen so should not be sent to Britain.
Mr Murray, who holds dual Moroccan and British citizenship, is thought to have masterminded the raid on the Tonbridge depot last February.
He was sentenced to eight months in a Moroccan jail in a separate case on Tuesday after being found guilty along with three other Britons of drug possession and assaulting a police officer.
Because he was arrested in June, he could be freed on Monday.
POSTED: 23/02/2007 17:18:04
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