Hijack charges will not stand up, says lawyer

THE Swede suspected of planning to hijack a Ryanair jet bound for London was moved to a Stockholm jail yesterday as his lawyer predicted a hijacking charge would not hold up in a trial.

Kerim Sadok Chatty, 29, was moved from the police station in Vaesteraas, 60 miles northwest of the capital, where he had been held since last Thursday when security officers at the local airport found a gun in his carry-on luggage as he was about to board a Ryanair flight to Stansted.

Chatty, whose mother is Swedish and father is from Tunisia, was moved to Kronobergshaektet, a jail in the city's police headquarters.