A US magistrate judge has ruled that Andrew and Tristan Tate must remain in custody in Miami while they contest extradition to Britain on rape and sex trafficking charges. Judge Lauren Louis rejected the brothers' bail application, finding they had failed to show they posed no flight risk or danger to the community, or that special circumstances justified their release. The decision means the pair, who hold dual US and British citizenship, face a potentially lengthy legal process before any decision on their removal to the UK.

Andrew, 39, faces seven further counts of rape, three counts of trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 charges linked to indecent images of children and extreme pornography, while Tristan, 38, faces one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape and three counts of trafficking. The Crown Prosecution Service said these 38 additional charges, alongside 21 existing ones, relate to alleged offences between July 2010 and August 2017. The brothers, former professional kickboxers who deny wrongdoing, had argued their high public profile made flight impractical and pointed to their cooperation with a separate Romanian sex crimes investigation, but their lawyers' defence that their online personas were exaggerated or satirical did not sway the judge.