A Scot embroiled in a long-running extradition fight after being accused of murder in Florida is in a final hearing at Europe's highest court.

Phillip Harkins, originally from Greenock in Inverclyde, is accused of murdering 22-year-old Joshua Hayes in Jacksonville, Florida, in August 1999.

The 38-year-old has been fighting against extradition for more than a decade.

On Wednesday, he will take the case to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, where his lawyers will argue it would be a breach of his human rights to send him to the US, where he could face life imprisonment without parole.

Harkins moved with his mother and step-father to Florida from Greenock when he was 14.

Shortly before his 21st birthday, he was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of Mr Hayes in a botched attempted robbery.

He insists he was not at the scene and previously said he had been "stitched up".

He was later released and returned to Scotland where he was jailed in 2003 for killing a pensioner in a car crash in his home town.

Harkins, whose case is thought thought to be the UK's longest-running extradition battles, remains in prison while he awaits the decision of the Grand Chamber.

A final verdict may not be issued for several months after Wednesday's hearing.