A Russian scientist deported to Britain two weeks ago in a spy swap between the United States and Russia has said he wants to “go home”. The statement is the first from Igor Sutyagin since he arrived in the United Kingdom from Russia, where he’d been held in a prison camp since being convicted of spying for the Americans. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports from Moscow.

Igor Sutyagin is homesick. Barely two weeks after arriving in the UK, he has told his brother he desperately wants to go home. In a statement released by his brother in Moscow, Mr Sutyagin says he wants to see his wife and children and to fix the porch on his little house outside Moscow. How soon that might happen is hard to tell. The British authorities have said nothing about what they intend for him. But as part of the deal for his release, Mr Sutyagin was pardoned by President Dmitry Medvedev, so in theory he should be allowed to return to Russia in the future.

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