Daughter's plea to MPs for British woman on Death Row in Texas

Linda Carty, 51, could be given a lethal injection within months after the US Supreme Court refused to review a murder conviction which campaigners say resulted from a "catastrophically flawed" trial.

Her daughter, Jovelle Carty Joubert, flew to the UK from her home in Texas, as part of desperate efforts to rally support for the condemned woman, who has always protested her innocence.

Over the next few days she will meet Foreign Office officials and MPs in a bid to rally support for her mother. But she has so far failed to secure a meeting with any Government Ministers.

Speaking at a Press conference inside the House of Commons, Ms Carty Joubert called on politicians to increase the pressure on US authorities. She said support from the UK was coming across "loud and clear" in Texas but more needed to be done.

Carty was convicted in 2002 over the kidnap and murder of Joana Rodriguez, who was seized alongside her four-day-old son by three men on May 16 2001.

The baby was later found unharmed in a car, but Ms Rodriguez was killed, having suffocated with duct-tape over her mouth and a plastic bag placed around her head.

Carty has always maintained her innocence. She claims she was framed by the men who carried out the abduction due to her work as an informant for the US Drug Enforcement Agency.