Roman Polanski's lawyers issued a lengthy statement today, describing a request for his extradition from Switzerland as incomplete and unfair.

Roman Polanski's lawyers filed a last legal volley in a California appeals court, saying that the 33-year-old sex case and its lengthy delays were an assault on the state's judicial system.

Fugitive film director Roman Polanski has asked a judge to sentence him in his absence over a child sex case, a Los Angeles court was told early today.

Fugitive film director Roman Polanski has taken his bid to have a decades-old sex case thrown out to the US appeals court.

A judge dismissed Roman Polanski’s bid to throw out a decades-old sex case because the fugitive director failed to appear in court to press his request.