Spector bail gets January extension

Spector insists he is innocent

Record producer Phil Spector's $1m bail has been extended a second time while prosecutors decide whether to charge him following a woman's death at his home.

Spector, 62, is free on bail and has denied killing actress Lana Clarkson at his California home in February.

The producer, who is now on bail until 9 January, has claimed that Clarkson, 40, may have shot herself.

But in a report filed in September, sheriff's detectives concluded it was Spector who fired the trigger.

The decision to extend the bail was taken between lawyers and the judge in Spector's case, Los Angeles Superior Court spokesman Allan Parachini said.

But it is not clear who initially requested the extension.

Spector's "wall of sound" technique revolutionised 1960s pop music, and his best-known hits include Da Doo Ron Ron and Then He Kissed Me.