Dual Australian-British national Stephen Hutton, 53, could be extradited from the UK to Australia within weeks over the murder of Sandra Therese White, 34. The body of the mother-of-one was found after a suspicious caravan fire in Yandoit on August 12, 1985.

Tim White, who was 13 at the time of his mother's death, said he wanted closure for his family and himself after decades of misery.

A 1986 inquest was unable to determine the cause of Ms White's death but Mr White had the case reopened three years ago on the 20th anniversary of his mother's death.

Mr White said it took two-and-a-half years for Australian authorities to get permission to interview Hutton in England.

News Limited has reported that during the proceedings for extradition, it was alleged that Hutton told doctors he had a vision, in which he possibly smothered a woman to death with a pillow as he lay next to her. He allegedly revealed he saw himself carrying the woman's body to a caravan in a neighbouring property, laying it out, setting fire to the van and watching it burn.

Hutton refused to answer questions then, but 15 years later he allegedly confessed to police, a claim he now denies.