Stuck on Uwe

A GERMAN man glued himself to his fiancee in order to avoid extradition from Spain, legal sources said yesterday.

The man applied a product normally used to glue car products together to his hand, and took advantage of a visit by his girlfriend to his jail to stick their hands together.

They said the man, 39-year-old Uwe Dieter Krone, and his girlfriend were taken to a Madrid hospital where doctors were hoping to avoid surgery by finding a solution that would dissolve the glue, the sources said.