Af­ter spend­ing al­most three weeks in prison while be­ing probed over an al­leged plot to as­sas­si­nate Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve have been or­dered re­leased from prison and placed un­der house ar­rest.

How­ev­er, a late-night ap­peal put a hold on the de­ci­sion, as an­oth­er ap­pel­late pan­el agreed to give the State’s lawyers a chance to chal­lenge the rul­ing at the Unit­ed King­dom-based Privy Coun­cil.

Ap­pel­late Judges Pe­ter Ra­jku­mar, Mi­ra Dean-Ar­mor­er and Joan Charles made the ini­tial or­der yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, as they up­held the cou­ple’s ap­peal chal­leng­ing a de­ci­sion by High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad to refuse their in­ter­im re­lease last week.