Randy Quaid and wife released from custody in US

Randy Quaid and his wife have been released from custody in Vermont, after a judge dismissed fugitive from justice charges against the couple.

Quaid, 65, and his wife, Evi, were taken into custody last Friday night by Vermont police while trying to enter the US from Canada.

They fled to Canada in 2010 after being charged with vandalism and squatting in a Santa Barbara property.

The couple denied the charges, claiming the property still belonged to them.

Judge Alison Arms had initially reduced bail for the couple from $500,000 (£323,743) each to $50,000 (£32,374), saying she could not find probable cause to support the vandalism accusations.

But after a break decided to release them because of a discrepancy in dates in paperwork from California.

After they left the courthouse the Quaids said they will stay in Lincoln, Vermont, to care for Evi Quaid's sick father and address the California charges.

"I never worried about being found guilty or any of that for any of these charges because I know the truth, and I know the facts are going to come out at some point, and today was a good sign of that,'' Randy Quaid said.

Speaking outside court, he told reporters he spent his time in jail playing cribbage and Sudoko with three other older inmates.

His wife's lawyer told the court that she had been threatened by another inmate who had left faeces in her cell