TWO families are rejoicing after two men held in a Spanish prison were set free after four-and-a-half months

<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6em; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6em; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Kyle Thain, 24, and James Harris, 29, have been released on bail from Font Calent jail in Alicante.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6em; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">This has left family members and friends overwhelmed – and they haven’t given up hope of getting them back to Britain for Christmas.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6em; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Kyle’s brother Jay, 29, said: “This is the best I have felt in a long while. It’'s amazing news.”</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6em; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Sharon Harris, 56, Kyle’s mother, and husband Dave, 58, sold their Southend home to help fund the legal fight.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6em; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Yesterday, £8,000 was transferred to Spain for each of the lads’ bail.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6em; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Kyle of Sandringham Road, Southend, and James, of Pelham Road, Southend, have been held without charge since July 8. They are accused of attempted murder after two men were stabbed during a bar brawl near Alicante, close to where they were staying on a lads’ weekend away. They were arrested as they went to board the flight home.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6em; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The two pals have always maintained their innocence and insist they did not even set foot in the bar where the violence took place. Their families are convinced there has been a terrible case of mistaken identity.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6em; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Kyle and James are now due to leave prison today once funds have cleared. Jay and Sharon will fly out tomorrow where they will be reunited with Kyle and James who will stay with James’s mother Kate Burgess who has been in Spain since their arrest.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6em; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The decision on bail was finally made after a judge was presented with evidence that has been available all along.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6em; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Jay said a previous solicitor had told a judge that Kyle and James had pictures of them at their apartment around the time of the bar fight.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6em; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The new solicitor apparently put the time and date stamped pictures in front of the judge and said they convinced him it was sufficient evidence to at least release Kyle and James from jail.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6em; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">A previous bail application in September was denied earlier this month and Kyle’s mum Sharon said she was beginning to prepare for Christmas being a “non-event”.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6em; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">But now the two families are looking forward to trying to clear the names of Kyle and James once and for all.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6em; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Jay, also of Sandringham Road, added: “This is a really positive step in the right direction.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6em; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">“The aim is to try and get them bail to the UK and to continue fighting for the case to be dropped completely.”</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6em; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Since Kyle and James were arrested family and friends in south Essex have rallied in support with fundraising events netting thousands of pounds for the legal fight.</p>

TWO families are rejoicing after two men held in a Spanish prison were set free after four-and-a-half months

  Kyle Thain, 24, and James Harris, 29, have been released on bail from Font Calent jail in Alicante. This has left family members and frien...

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