Death row Briton to fly home

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The 43-year-old from Edinburgh, who reached a plea deal with prosecutors over an arson attack in which a two-year-old girl died, walked free from jail in Putnam County, Ohio, on Monday.

Mr Richey thanked all those who "never doubted my innocence" and said he was looking forward to "going home to Scotland".

After spending the night at the home of his brother Steven, he is expected to leave Dayton, Ohio, on Tuesday afternoon, taking a series of flights via Chicago and London Heathrow, and arriving in Edinburgh on Wednesday afternoon.

Richey was convicted in 1987 of an arson attack on an apartment block in an Ohio town in which Cynthia Collins, two, died. But in August last year the sentence was overturned.

On Monday, he pleaded no contest to charges of attempted involuntary manslaughter, child endangering and breaking and entering at the Putnam County Common Pleas Court in Ottawa, Ohio.

He was sentenced to a total of 21 years - time he has already served.

Richey was released from the Putnam County jail wearing a blue, yellow and green Scottish cap called a glengarry and told reporters: "It's been a long time coming."

His first meal as a free man was a steak lunch at an Applebee's restaurant in Putnam County, Ohio.

His lawyer, Ken Parsigian, said: "He's told me for 15 years that when he got out that is what he was going to get."