A Scot accused of hacking into US Federal Reserve computers is due to find out if he will be extradited to America.

Vicar's son Lauri Love, 31, who lives with his parents in Suffolk, appeared in court in June for an extradition hearing over allegations of stealing huge quantities of data from Nasa and US government computers.

The former Glasgow University student, who has Asperger's, vowed to fight "barbaric" attempts to extradite him to America "all the way" and is expected to hear the ruling in the case on Friday.

He is accused of hacking into the Department of Defence, Nasa and the FBI's computers in a spate of online attacks in 2012 and 2013.

He and his family want him to face justice in the UK rather than the US, which he said "coerces" people into pleading guilty to get reduced sentences.

His case was heard at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court in June and on Friday a judge will decide whether he should be extradited to face the possibility of three separate trials in different jurisdictions.

The case will be the first substantive test of the "forum bar", which was introduced by former home secretary Theresa May to allow courts to block extradition if it is in the interests of justice to have a person tried in Britain instead.

A judge will hand down the ruling at Westminster Magistrates' Court at 2pm on Friday, and also set a date for Mr Love's case against the National Crime Agency over its retention of computer equipment it seized from him.

Mr Love, who has been diagnosed with Asperger's and suffers from chronic eczema, previously said he will not go to America "under any condition whatsoever" and his father Alexander, who now works as a prison chaplain, fears his son will kill himself rather than be extradited.

Mr Love said: "I am hoping for a positive outcome but we will fight it all the way."