Paul 'Doug' Peters was arrested by the FBI after tying a fake bomb around a Sydney schoolgirl's neck. Photo / AP
Accused Sydney neck bomb hoaxer Paul Peters has been moved out of his Kentucky jail cell and is flying to Los Angeles under US Marshals guard.
The silver-haired 50-year-old investment banker, accused of terrorising 18-year-old Madeleine Pulver at her family's north shore Sydney home on August 3, is expected to
board a Los Angeles to Sydney flight on Thursday night (Friday afternoon AEST).
He will be escorted by two NSW police officers on the 15-hour flight, scheduled to touch down in Sydney on Saturday morning (AEST).
"He is no longer at the facility," a spokesperson at the Oldham County Jail, in Louisville, Kentucky, told AAP.
Peters spent five weeks locked up in the jail, but became "anxious" with the prospect of remaining in custody in Kentucky while enduring a long extradition court battle that would likely prove unsuccessful, his Louisville lawyer Thomas E Clay said.
