BLondon - An Australian man wanted in Germany on charges of denying the mass killing of Jews in the Holocaust has been freed from prison in London after the German authorities agreed to abandon a legal bid for his extradition, his lawyer said Friday.

Gerald Federick Toben, 64, who is of German origin, was arrested at London's Heathrow airport on October 1 on a European arrest warrant, alleging Holocaust denial and the spreading of anti-Semitic propaganda.

But on October 30, a judge at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London dismissed the case on the grounds that the warrant contained insufficient detail of the allegations made against Toben.

He was freed on bail pending an appeal to the High Court lodged by lawyers representing the German authorities, and remained in jail in London until Thursday.

Toben's lawyer, Kevin Lowry-Mullins, said Friday that the appeal had now been withdrawn and he had signed a consent order with the German government to end the case.

His client was "over the moon," added Lowry-Mullins.

Toben, a historian and founder of the controversial Adelaide Institute, was wanted by a court in Mannheim, southern Germany, for posting "revisionist threats on the internet about the Holocaust."

Unlike in Britain, denying the Holocaust is an offence in Germany with a maximum jail term of five years.

In 1999, Toben spent seven months in jail in Germany and has served an 11-month sentence in Austria for Holocaust denial.

He will be free to travel once he gets his passport back from the British authorities. (dpa)