An 88-year-old Perth man wanted in Hungary for the alleged murder and torture of a Jewish teenager during World War II has successfully appealed his extradition.
Charles Zentai is suspected of being one of three Nazi-backed Hungarian soldiers who murdered Jewish teenager Peter Balazs in Budapest in November 1944.
Hungary issued an arrest warrant for Zentai, who lives in the southern Perth suburb of Willetton, in 2005.
On Friday the Federal Court upheld Mr Zentai's appeal, saying the home affairs minister's extradition decision was beyond his jurisdiction.
Judge Neil McKerracher said war crime was not a qualifying extradition offence for which Mr Zentai could be surrendered for extradition.
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