McVeigh in new bid to halt execution

Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh has asked his lawyers to prepare a bid to have his execution delayed again.

The terrorist who murdered 168 people, 19 of them children, on April 19 1995, has told his lawyers to draw up papers to be submitted to court asking for a stay of execution.

He will decide on Thursday whether to tell his legal team to proceed.

McVeigh is scheduled to die on June 11, after his execution was postponed for 30 days by America’s attorney-general John Ashcroft when it emerged thousands of pages of evidence had not been disclosed by the FBI to his defence team at his original trial.

His lawyer Rob Nigh said the course of the case ‘‘would change in the near future’’, based on the evidence which had emerged.