WARSAW (AFP) - Britain has agreed to allow two Poles convicted of rape by courts to serve their prison terms in Polish jails, judicial authorities announced on Wednesday.

The two men, identified as Jakub Tomczak and Kamil K. will be transferred separately over the coming month, Poland's justice ministry said in a statement.

In January, 24-year-old Tomczak was convicted of rape and causing grievous bodily harm to a 48-year-old woman in July 2006 in Exeter.

Tomczak was handed down a double-life sentence for the crime, which he denied committing.

Tomczak had been employed as a hotel night porter in Exeter at the time.

Poland, which joined the European Union in 2004, agreed to a request to extradite him to Britain for trial after he was arrested on an EU warrant in his home town of Poznan, in western Poland, in February 2007.

In a separate case in March this year, a court in York sentenced Polish national Kamil K. to five years for rape.

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