A convicted terrorist wanted by Spanish authorities as a result of his involvement in a 1986 Madrid bomb attack which left 11 people dead has won the latest round of a fight against extradition from the the UK.
Two British judges today allowed an appeal by Antonio Arranz following a hearing at the High Court in London.
Judges heard that Arranz had been a member of a terrorist cell with links to Basque separatist group ETA - he had travelled to the UK about four years ago and was arrested at an address in Hounslow, west London, in 2012.
A lower-ranking judge had ordered his extradition from England to Spain following hearings in a magistrates court in Westminster, London.
Arranz had challenged that decision at a hearing in the High Court in London in June.
Judges Lord Thomas - the most senior judge in England and Wales - and Mr Justice Cranston announced their ruling today.
Lord Thomas, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, explained how Arranz had been convicted and jailed in Spain then released - and how Spanish authorities had subsequently made efforts to have him returned.
Arranz had been a member of a terrorist cell which "sought to further the aims" of ETA and on July 14 1986 he and others had place an "explosive device" in central Madrid.
The bomb had been detonated as a convoy of civil guards approached.
Eleven members of the civil guard had been killed, 43 members of civil guard and 17 civilians had been injured, and there had been substantial damage to property, said Lord Thomas.