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A BRITISH father who is accused of killing his six-year-old son in a fall from a hotel balcony made an unsuccessful attempt to kill himself in prison, his lawyer said last night.

Nineteen suspected members of the Greek terror group November 17 were set to appear before a prison court in Athens on Monday in the country’s biggest criminal trial for three decades.

The British plane spotters on spying charges could be transferred to an overcrowded and violent high security prison because of a delay in inspecting their photographs, their lawyer said today.