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Suspected child killer crossed Channel with boat migrants

- Daily Mail Reporter

A SUSPECTED killer crossed the Channel into Britain under a false name weeks after being accused of the gang rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl.

Rasuili Zubaidulla­h boarded a boat with other refugees, claimed asylum and was housed in a hotel at British taxpayers’ expense for almost a fortnight until his true identity emerged.

The 23-year-old Afghan had been accused of drugging Leonie Walner and sexually assaulting and suffocatin­g her in Vienna. The teenager’s body was found last June rolled up in a carpet after she was abducted and taken to a flat in the Austrian capital by three people. Police launched a manhunt for a group of Afghan refugees who had boasted of having ‘wild sex’ after meeting a girl via social media.

Zubaidulla­h arrived in Kent on a small boat on July 18 and lived in an Ibis Hotel in Whitechape­l, east London, for two weeks before Austrian authoritie­s tipped off the British authoritie­s.

A judge approved his extraditio­n and he was sent back to Austria to face trial.

 ?? ?? Victim: Leonie Walner was just 13
Victim: Leonie Walner was just 13
 ?? ?? Trial: Zubaidulla­h
Trial: Zubaidulla­h

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