A MAN facing extradition from Holland in connection with a double murder last year could soon be back in this country.

John Paul Marshall, a 42-year-old from York, was arrested in Amsterdam shortly before Christmas and has since been held in police custody.

Detectives in this country want to question him about the deaths of Kevin Mulgrew, 38, and Daniel Wall, 27, whose badly decomposing bodies were found at a council bedsit in Gillygate, York. They had been bludgeoned to death.

Mr Marshall has sacked his Dutch legal team and is not expected to fight the decision of three judges to extradite him back to this country.

A judge at the Dutch Supreme Court, sitting at The Hague, is expected to rule that he can be extradited immediately when his case is heard on May 11.

A spokeswoman for the Dutch Supreme Court said it was "almost certain" it would be his final appearance before the Dutch judiciary.

She said: "It appears he has not asked a lawyer to state his defence and, if that remains the case, his appeal will be rejected and the decision of the district court will become final."