A Scot accused of hacking into US Federal Reserve computers has vowed to fight "barbaric" attempts to extradite him to America "all the way".

Vicar's son Lauri Love, 31, who lives with his parents in Suffolk, will appear in court on Tuesday accused of stealing huge quantities of data from Nasa and US government computers.

The American authorities want him to stand trial for cyber-hacking in the US where, according to his lawyers, he could spend up to 99 years in prison if found guilty.

Former Glasgow University student Mr Love, who has been diagnosed with Aspergers and suffers from chronic eczema, says he will not go to America "under any condition whatsoever" and his father Alexander, who now works as a prison chaplain, fears his son will kill himself rather than be extradited.

Mr Love said: "I am hoping for a positive outcome but we will fight it all the way."

He said Theresa May should consider if she had a duty to intervene on his behalf.

He added: "I would ask her if she feels she has an obligation and a duty of care to UK citizens to shield them from relatively barbaric treatment.

"I have not been accused of any violent offending but am facing potentially the rest of my life in a foreign prison where I have no friends and family. I think this is something to consider and try to avoid.

"We should assert the sovereignty of our legal system which actually gave birth to US law and we should consider ourselves intelligent and competent and capable enough to have our own legal system and not require the foreign powers step in."

Mr Love, an electrical engineering student at the University Campus Suffolk, said he has not been able to view any of the evidence against him.

He added: "I haven't been afforded the opportunity to contest the allegations. I have not been charged. I've been indicted in America, the Americans don't give me any access to the evidence and I don't really intend to have a trial over there.

"I'm hoping after the extradition is refused there will be charged here in the UK and at that point I can actually formulate a defence."