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A Channel migrant accused of drugging, raping and strangling to death a 13-year-old girl before attempting to use a legal technicality to stay in the UK has today been ordered back to Austria to stand trial.
Afghan-born Rasuili Zubaidullah, 23, is accused of drugging, raping and suffocating teenager Leonie Walner in Austria in June last year.
The 13-year-old's body was found rolled up in a carpet in the capital of Vienna on June 26.
Police believe Leonie was taken to a flat alongside three people before she was killed.
It is believed Zubaidullah met Leonie in a nightlife district along the Danube Canal a day earlier.
Weeks after she was found dead, Zubaidullah boarded a boatload of refugees and claimed asylum in Britain.
He is believed to have provided authorities in Kent with a fake name on 18 July last year after successfully crossing the Channel.
Leonie Walner's body was found rolled up in a carpet in the Austrian capital of Vienna last June
He was living at a taxpayer-funded hostel in Whitechapel, east London, for two weeks before Austrian police tipped off British authorities, and he was arrested by officers from the National Extradition Unit on 29 July last year.
It was initially believed Zubaidullah had made his way to Italy before it became clear he had
