AUTHORITIES in Switzerland could decide to grant bail to a man accused of murder.

Mother-of-two Alison El Hamri is hoping the only decision now is the size of the bail bond to be demanded, rather than not when husband Majid will be allowed out of a Berne jail where he has been held since his extradition from the UK in February.

Whether or not he is allowed to leave the country and rejoin his wife and their six-year-old twins at their Coulby Newham home, near Middlesbrough, is not clear.

Mr El Hamri, who worked in an Eaglescliffe pizza shop, was initially accused of murdering three homosexual men, but has now been charged with murdering only one of the men, and that despite a negative DNA match.

Mrs El Hamri has been sent a copy of the prosecution's case papers for the trial which although written in German, make no mention of her husband's name.

She said: "There is a certain person who was a suspect in 1982 and 16 people have named this one person, who the police let go, but there is no mention of my husband.

"There are 200 pages to these case papers and his name is not mentioned once.''

She is hoping to hear within the next ten days that Mr El Hamri is to be given bail.

She said: "The district judge's refusal to give him bail has gone to a tribunal, which has refused the judge's decision.''

Mrs Hamri says the only evidence Swiss police have against her husband is a fingerprint on a wine glass in the home of the man he is accused of killing.