A Euro-MP has launched a fresh bid to return Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Deghayes to his family.

Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas is seeking a meeting with the Home Secretary to discuss the case of Mr Deghayes, who lived in Brighton for 20 years.

Mr Deghayes is Libyan but fled to the UK as a child after his father was assassinated by the Gaddafi regime in 1986. He has been held without charge or trial at the American detention camp in Cuba since 2002.

His family and lawyers say his chances of release have improved but fear Mr Deghayes will be deported back to Libya rather than the UK because he is not a British citizen.

Dr Lucas, who represents South-East England in the European Parliament, said: "Omar Deghayes has been visited by Libyan agents who have warned him he faces execution if he returns to Libya.

"If the US authorities forcibly repatriate him to Libya they will be effectively condemning him to death. He has been held for nearly three years with neither charges nor trial on evidence on which no court of law would convict. The British Government must intervene and ask the US to allow him to return to his family."