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The decision to suspend his sentence follows his payment of a guarantee sum.

Mr Hay, who found himself the subject of a European Arrest Warrant as a result of the case, has protested his innocence from the first. His plight has highlighted how EAWs can be used to have suspects extradited without a shred of evidence being put forward to back up the charges.

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