The two British youngsters, 20 year old Aidan-Paul Jenvis, and Mathan Levi aged 21, who were arrested at the Reina Sofia Airport last Friday after giving a false bomb alert during a Thomas Cook flight from Manchester, have now been released from custody, but they cannot leave Tenerife until the case against them comes to court. Their passports have been removed. They have been held since Friday in the cells of the Local Police in Granadilla de Abona. They are now staying at the apartment they had rented for their holiday break. The two are reported to have been drunk when they claimed to the other passengers and a stewardess that they had a bomb in their hand luggage. There was some debate as to whether they would be judged under Spanish or British legislation, given the offence happened on a British plane, considered to be British soil, but it seems they will tried under Article 82 of the Air Navigation Law in Spain. Civil Guard sources said that in all probability it will be a fast track hearing and the two will be expelled to the UK once they have paid a fine. Spanish law says there is a jail sentence of between six months and a year in prison, but it is unlikely they will go to jail as they have no previous record in Spain. A plan for Britain to ask for the extradition of the two to face terrorism charges in the UK has now been dismissed.
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