Pakistan hands over suspected murderer to UK
Pakistan hands over a Pakistani-origin UK national accused of murdering British citizens to UK.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Pakistan handed over a Pakistani-origin UK national, Shahid Mehmood, wanted by British police for murdering eight British citizens to the United Kingdom on Wednesday, Dunya News reported.
The handover of the wanted man to the UK is seen as a potential starting point for the exchange of wanted persons between the two countries.
Shahid Mehmood, a Pakistani origin British national, is charged with killing eight British citizens of a single family.
On May 12, 2002, Mehmood along with three other co-accused Shahid Iqbal, Nazar Hussain, and Shakeel Shahzad allegedly threw a petrol bomb in a house situated on Osborne Road, Huddersfield, England, in which all the eight people sleeping in the house were murdered.
After committing the offense, the accused Shahid Mehmood ran away from the UK and came to Pakistan.
On Wednesday, the Federal Investigation Agency handed over the accused to the UK under Section 11 of Extradition Act 1972. Mahmood was handed over to British Crime Agency and was taken to the UK in an special chartered flight.
