AN AFGHAN migrant who fled to the UK after allegedly murdering and raping a schoolgirl in Vienna will probably be extradited again to Austria.
Rasuili Zubaidullah is accused of killing Leonie Walner, 13, after she was discovered wrapped in a roll of carpet that was noticed dumped below a tree within the centre of the town in 2020.
The 22-year-old fled to Dunkirk in France earlier than boarding a folks traffickers boat throughout the Channel to the UK.
He gained entry to the nation illegally, utilizing a pretend identify to slide previous immigration officers in Dover earlier than being put up by the federal government within the Ibis resort in Whitechapel, East London.
However final 12 months British police obtained a tip off from Austrian authorities and located him hiding out within the resort.
A court docket has now dominated that he will probably be extradited to Austria to face trial for the gang rape and homicide of the teenager.
Florian Hoellwarth, the lawyer for Leonie's dad and mom, has now stated: "As anticipated, the extradition request was granted by the court docket in London."
Hoellwarth added "the extradition determination will not be ultimate” earlier than explaining that Zubaidullah has seven days to file an attraction.
But when the choice reached on Wednesday holds up, then the extradition will happen inside 17 days.
Leonie was reportedly raped and brutally attacked by 4 Afghan males earlier than being left to die on the street on June 26 2020.
Three of the Afghans had been later arrested in Austria, however Zubaidullah was arrested following the worldwide manhunt.
The schoolgirl lived within the metropolis of Wiener Neustadt close to Austria's capital Vienna, alongside together with her dad and mom and her 4 siblings aged 15, 17, 19 and 19, when the incident occurred.
A police investigation discovered that the schoolgirl met two of the suspects on the Danube Canal within the metropolis of Vienna the place all of them took ecstasy on June 25.
They then took the schoolgirl to an residence in Vienna's twenty second district named Donaustadt, the place they had been joined by two different suspects.
Police reported that the boys gave Leonie extra medication within the residence to "make her compliant" and sexually assaulted her.
They then rolled her physique in a carpet and disposing of it on the road about 100 metres from the residence.
LETHAL OVERDOSE
A submit mortem reportedly discovered that she had been given a “deadly” overdose of ecstasy and hashish.
One other Afghan, Shinwari Kuchi, who was in the identical Dunkirk migrant camp as Zubaidullah stated: “I shared a tent with him when he stayed in a single day.
“He talked about his plan to pay £3,000 to Kurdish traffickers to cross the Channel. He was intent on Britain.
“He had simply arrived after I met him within the charity meals queue. He had nowhere to sleep, so I stated 'come into mine [tent]'.
“He did not speak a lot however after I woke within the morning he had disappeared. I by no means noticed him once more and he did not say he was on the run.”
Simply ten days later he managed to enter the UK.
The Austrian authorities has now promised to trace down these concerned within the woman's 'barbaric' dying.
Leonie’s mom, Melanie, informed Austrian media: “My toddler trusted a 16-year-old and that was her dying sentence.”
She added: “Why had been these folks nonetheless within the nation? Why had been they not expelled?
“The place are the politicians in cost? We wish to know that.”
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