FALLEN Hollywood idol Kevin Spacey could be extradited to Britain to face four sex charges within weeks, experts said.
The double-Oscar winner, 62, is wanted back in the UK by British authorities, which will seek formal extradition unless he returns voluntarily.
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And extradition experts told the Guardian that US police may be sent to find Spacey soon and detain him on behalf of British authorities.
He is accused of historic sexual assaults against three young men but can only be formally charged if he returns to Britain.
US Department of Justice officials must agree there was a probable cause the offences were committed before ordering police to locate and detain him.
And only the charges agreed by a US court could be brought against him in Britain.
Former head of extradition at the CPS Nick Vamos said Spacey could be sent back in weeks if he does not contest extradition and months if he does.
He also said Spacey would have greater protections if he was formally extradited than if he flew back voluntarily.
And he added: “If he comes back to the UK, he could get a bail package that allows him to return to the US.”
The American actor is last known to have been in the UK more than 20 months ago.
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Police last week gave the go-ahead to charge Spacey with four counts of sexual assault on three male complainants, now all in their 30s and 40s.
He is accused of a fifth count against one of them by allegedly causing them to engage in penetrative sex without consent — a crime similar to rape and punishable with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
The alleged offences date from when Spacey was artistic director of London’s Old Vic between 2004 and 2015.
Three of the sexual assaults are said to have happened in London between 2005 and 2008, and the fourth in Gloucestershire in 2013.
The penetrative sex offence is said to have been carried out in the capital in 2008.
