A SPANISH national who lived in Oxford is appealing against being extradited to his homeland accused of being a terrorist.

Eneko Gogeaskoetxea Arronategui was told by Deputy Senior District Judge Daphne Wickham at Westminster Magistrates’ Court that he can be extradited to Spain over the accusations he was working for the terrorist group ETA.

The 45-year-old faces eight arrest warrants including a series of charges such as placing grenade launchers aimed at Madrid Barajas Airport and a police station in Spain.

But the court in London discharged Gogeaskoetxea from a charge of attempted assassination of King Juan Carlos in 1997 after the judge accepted a defence submission that it was unsustainable in Spanish law.

The judge also discharged him from another allegation of organised armed robbery.

The court heard that Gogeaskoetxea allegedly had in 1996 become a member of ETA, which has killed more than 850 people in its struggle for an independent Basque state.

Gogeaskoetxea’s solicitor Alastair Lyon said that an appeal against last month’s extradition ruling had been submitted.

Gogeaskoetxea and his family moved to Alexandra Road, in West Oxford, in 2003.

They stayed for two years before leaving suddenly.