A SWINDON man who spent more than a week on the run from American cops has been remanded in custody.

Andrew Warren is one of two suspects in the murder of a 26-year-old Chicago hair stylist found with more than 40 stab wounds on July 27.

Warren, 56, who describes himself as being from Swindon in his online profiles, appeared in a San Francisco court on Friday, the city where he turned himself in earlier last week after eight days as a fugitive.

The court heard how Warren is accused, alongside 42-year old professor Wyndham Lathem, of killing Trenton Cornell-Duranleau in Lathem's Chicago apartment.

Lathem is understood to have been in a relationship with his victim.

Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said there appeared to have been tensions in the relationship.

His force has requested that the pair be returned to the city for questioning.

"We have a lot of questions for Mr Lathem and Mr Warren and we look forward to their return to Chicago," Mr Guglielmi said.

Warren wore a baggy, orange prison-issued sweatshirt and jogging bottoms.

Unshaven, the shuffled timidly into the room courtroom and spoke quietly, only to confirm that he is the wanted man and that he would accept a public lawyer because he could not afford his own.

He was denied bail and will be held in custody.

Judge Edward Torpoco said: "Based on the nature of the charge, the defendant is remanded and no bail is set."

After the hearing, Warren's lawyer, Ariel Boyce-Smith, said: "Mr Warren is agreeable to being transported to Chicago, he wants the process to be started.

"I just want to remind everyone that he is presumed innocent and his agreement to go there to start the process is where we are now."

He is expected to leave San Francisco bound for Chicago in the coming days.