The 23-year-old fled to Britain final summer time, allegedly beneath a faux title
London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Courtroom has ordered the extradition from the UK of an Afghan migrant who illegally crossed the English Channel and is needed in Austria in reference to the rape and homicide of a teenage lady.
Throughout a listening to on Wednesday, District Decide Michael Snow instructed Rasuili Zubaidullah he rejected his counsel’s authorized challenges and he should return to Austria to face trial inside 17 days. Zubaidullah was given per week to enchantment the choice, and, pending his extradition, will stay in Wandsworth Jail in South London.
The Afghan’s protection workforce had argued that he shouldn’t be extradited to Austria at this level, as he had not been formally charged by the authorities there. Nevertheless, the decide didn’t see that as cause sufficient to permit him to remain in Britain.
Zubaidullah and three different Afghan migrants are suspected of getting drugged 13-year-old Leonie Walner in Vienna on June 26, 2021, earlier than luring her into one of many suspects’ flats, the place was given but extra ecstasy, earlier than being gang-raped and strangled to dying. It’s alleged the suspects then rolled up her physique in a carpet and dumped it on the road.
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All of the suspects besides Zubaidullah have been detained by police shortly afterwards and have been in pretrial detention ever since. Zubaidullah fled Austria, nonetheless, first reportedly reaching the town of Dunkirk, in northern France. The suspect is then stated to have paid folks smugglers to assist him board a ship illegally headed for Britain. On July 18, he claimed asylum, having allegedly offered UK border drive officers with a faux title when the boat reached the Kent coast. He was subsequently accommodated in a taxpayer-funded hostel in Whitechapel, East London.
The Austrian authorities have been monitoring Zubaidullah, nonetheless, and contacted their British colleagues to tell them of his arrival within the UK. The Vienna Public Prosecutor’s Workplace issued a world warrant for his arrest on July 29, and, performing on that warrant, officers from the UK’s Nationwide Extradition Unit detained him 11 days after he set foot on British soil.
