FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- British murder suspect Neil Entwistle was taken to Framingham Thursday morning to face charges he murdered his young wife and baby in January.

NewsCenter 5's Gail Huff reported that Entwistle, 27, spent the night at the Hopkinton Police Department after arriving back in the United States on a small government plane on Wednesday. He was handcuffed, shackled and was wearing a bulletproof vest. He was fingerprinted and booked at the police station. His arraignment was scheduled for Framingham District Court at 2 p.m. Thursday.

Entwistle was transported to Framingham District Court to face two first-degree murder charges in the deaths of his wife, Rachel, 27, and his 9-month-old baby Lillian. Both were found shot to death in their Hopkinton home on Jan. 22. Entwistle flew to his native England the same weekend they were killed. An arrest warrant was issued for Entwistle Jan. 15 and he agreed to voluntarily return to the U.S. to face the charges.

The son of a coal miner, Entwistle grew up in Worksop, England. He met the former Rachel Souza, of Kingston, Mass., while both were attending university in England and the couple were married only a few years ago. The Internet entrepreneur has now had all his online businesses shut down and his personal property in Hopkinton was seized.

Entwistle spoke to his attorney, Elliot Weinstein, Wednesday night. He will have an opportunity to consult with his lawyer again before the court hearing Thursday and has been offered the services of the British consul.

NewsCenter 5's Janet Wu reported that attorneys on both sides of the case are likely to discuss the significant pre-trial publicity the case has generated on both sides of the Atlantic, and whether it will hamper Entwistle's ability to get a fair trial. There were more than 100 members of the media at the Framigham Court house before Entwistle's arraignment.

"There have been some questions marks in the British coverage about how damaging, how poisonous this pre-trial publicity will be. And the people in Britain now are very interested to see whether Entwistle is looking at a fair trial or something along the lines of a long, slow lynching in the state of Massachusetts," said Andrew Wilson of Sky News.

Entwistle's court-appointed attorney said the publicity is pervasive, prejudicial and impossible to overcome.

"The man has just come into the country to face a serious charges of double homicide and there's been nothing but media attention, playing out all the ... what they believe to be ... the facts. I suspect that everybody listening to this broadcast, everybody's who read about him, and everybody who thinks about him tomorrow, has already formed an opinion about his guilt and not one person has heard one fact or one bit of evidence," Weinstein said.

Some of the British press on hand to cover the case, however, said there is a difference between this situation and that of the British nanny, Louise Woodward, who was accused of shaking a baby to death in Massachusetts several years ago. They said the British public appears to be less protective of Entwistle.

"If your wife and child have been murdered and you don't go to the funeral, then there's more to this story, and I think from that moment on both here, the sort of coverage you were seeing, and the sort of coverage you were seeing in England, were simultaneously changing around," Wilson said.

Entwistle is expected to enter a not-guilty plea to the murder charges and state prosecutors are expected to ask that he be held without bail. His wife's relatives are expected to be in the courtroom for the hearing.

The Entwistle case is expected to cost taxpayers $1 million.