Family supporters of Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Deghayes have spoken of their frustration at the prolonged delay to a High Court decision on his fate.

Judges said they would deliberate for two weeks after a two-day hearing last month to determine if Foreign Secretary Jack Straw should be ordered to seek the release of Mr Deghayes and two other Guantanamo detainees.

It is now more than three weeks since the hearing and there is still no sign of a result.

Mr Deghayes' brother Abubaker, who attended both days of the judicial review at the High Court in London, said the continued delay was causing immense stress to the family.

Mr Deghayes, 38, said: "Not knowing when the ruling is going to come is horrible.

"They said it was going to be two weeks, then they asked for an extension of a week, now they have said they need another extension. It's so frustrating.

"We won't mind the wait if we get the result we want. But we are not that confident as the judges seemed to want to rush the case, and they are under a lot of pressure."

Mr Deghayes said their legal team had already prepared a case for the Court of Appeal if the judgement went against them. He said: "Our barrister says the higher up the case goes up the different courts the more likely we are of winning."

During the hearing, on March 22 and 23, lawyers acting for Mr Deghayes and two other Guantanamo detainees argued the Government had a legal and a moral responsibility to step in and help the detainees.

The Government lawyer argued it had no responsibility to help Mr Deghayes as he was not a British citizen.

Mr Deghayes is a 37-year-old law graduate from Saltdean who was captured in Pakistan in 2001.

The Argus is calling on the Government to put pressure on the US authorities to put him on trial or let him go.