A Suffolk man accused of cyber-hacking US agencies will find out next week if his appeal to avoid extradition is successful.

Two High Court judges in London will give their decision on the challenge lodged my Lauri Love, who is from Stradishall near Newmarket, on Monday.

Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett and Mr Justice Ouseley heard argument on his behalf during a hearing in November.

They were told extradition would not be in the “interests of justice” for a number of reasons, including the “high risk” that Mr Love, who suffers from Asperger syndrome, would kill himself.

Authorities in the US have been fighting for Mr Love to face trial on charges of cyber-hacking, which lawyers have said could mean a sentence of up to 99 years in prison if he is found guilty.

Mr Love, 32, who lives with his parents and also suffers from a depressive illness and severe eczema, is alleged to have stolen huge amounts of data from US agencies, including the Federal Reserve, the US army, the defence department, Nasa and the FBI in a spate of online attacks in 2012 and 2013.

In September 2016 a district judge at Westminster Magistrates’ Court ruled that Mr Love could be extradited. The High Court appeal centred on that ruling.

Edward Fitzgerald QC, for Mr Love, submitted there were “overwhelming reasons of justice and humanity” why any trial should take place in the UK.

He argued it would be “unjust and oppressive” to extradite him because of his severe mental disorders.

Peter Caldwell, representing the US, made submissions inviting the judges to dismiss Mr Love’s appeal.

In written argument he said the district judge’s conclusion on extradition was “reasonably open to her on the findings of fact she made”.

Having identified a high risk of suicide, she “properly assessed whether and how that risk could be managed were the appellant to be extradited”.

Mr Love’s supporters have called for the case to be raised with Donald Trump – with 100 MPs writing to his predecessor Barack Obama in 2016 calling for the extradition to be dropped.

A cross-party group of 73 MPs warned about Mr Love’s suicide risk if extradited.

Mr Love told the Telegraph in July last year that he would rather die than go to the US.