PIOTR Kupiec - the man arrested at Subway in Devizes on an international murder charge - is due back in court today after an administrative error meant his release was briefly ordered.

Kupiec, who faces extradition to his native Poland on the charge, was not taken from Wandsworth Prison to Westminster Magistrates' Court yesterday and a district judge said there was now "no power to hold him" and ordered his release.

Kupiec, 28, was immediately re-arrested and is expected to appear in court today.

He was the subject of an international manhunt and is wanted by Polish authorities over the death of a man following a football match in 2007.

He was arrested in January at the Subway in Devizes, where he worked near the Wiltshire Police HQ in London Road.

The warrant under which he was detained was withdrawn on Tuesday because police investigating the case arrested another man with the same name, making it invalid.

A new warrant was due to be issued at Wednesday's court hearing, meaning Mr Kupiec could be re-arrested, but he was not produced at court.

District Judge Quentin Purdy said: "There is no power to hold him. He has to be released, unless there is any lawful basis for arresting him."

A spokesman for the National Crime Agency said: "There are arrangements in place to secure his re-arrest on the new European arrest warrant if/when he is released from prison."