ANXIOUS Bournemouth University student Andrew Symeou has been extradited to Greece to face trial for a manslaughter he flatly denies.

The 20-year-old fears he will be in prison for many months before appearing in court.

Symeou, who has completed two years of an Events Management course in Bournemouth, is accused of killing Cardiff teenager Jonathan Hiles in a nightclub on the island in 2007.

But he denies he was even in the club at the time and his case has been taken up by campaign group Fair Trials International.

Symeou’s father, Frank, who lives in Enfield in London, said: “Andrew is ready to face his accusers, confident in the fact that he is innocent and that the case against him has no foundation in truth.

“This whole nightmare has tested Andrew in ways that most of us could not imagine – he has shown great courage and strength of character.”

Mr Hiles died two days after being punched so hard that he was knocked unconscious and fell from a dance podium in a nightclub.

Symeou maintains he knew nothing of the incident until after he had returned to the UK and an arrest warrant was not issued until nearly a year after the tragedy.

Jago Russell, of Fair Trials International, said: “It is a tragedy that, despite the serious flaws in the case against him, Andrew Symeou has been sent to Greece.”

Mr Russell said there is witness evidence that Symeou was elsewhere at the time of the attack and that he did not fit the description of the attacker.