The suspect, whose former girlfriend claimed hehadrapedher, was at a gate inside Terminal 4 waiting to board an 8:40 a.m. flight to London when he was taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, the official said.
The meeting with Mr Salmond and Mr MacAskill is to take place after it emerged that Peter Tobin, the convicted sex offender who raped and murdered the Polish student, had been on the run for almost a year before he killed her.