An Albanian convicted of murder in England, after returning to Albania to serve his sentence, has returned illegally to England and is again involved in crime.
According to The Sun on Sunday newspaper, this is Flamur Topalli, against whom the extradition process from London to Tirana has begun.
Topalli, originally from Dibra and sentenced to 16 years in prison, was released from prison in 2020 on the condition of appearing for probation. But he illegally fled to England.
The Westminster Magistrate Court was told that Flamur Topalli is wanted by Albanian justice to return to prison after serving two years in prison. Top Channel learns that the extradition process has been halted for the time being.
Flamur Topalli, along with two other Albanians, has appeared before the Crown Court in Portsmouth, where he has admitted charges of cannabis production and is expected to be sentenced in January.
Flamur Topalli, along with two other Albanian brothers, Vionest and Ermir Dema, from the Dema criminal clan, who operated in the south of England in the city of Brighton, were involved in the murder of 25-year-old Altin Molita, a security guard at a nightclub, in May 2004.
Molita was stabbed several times after he refused to let them enter the nightclub where he worked.
Flamur Topalli was transferred to serve his sentence in Albania and when he had two years left in prison to serve, the Dibra court accepted his request to be released on parole.
The appeal gave the prosecution the right to return Topalli to prison, but it was too late as he had illegally left Albanian territory to re-enter England illegally.
How Altin Molita was barbarically murdered in Hove, East Sussex.
According to a BBC article in March 2005, three Albanians were sentenced to life imprisonment for the "deliberate and brutal" murder of a night watchman at a club.
Altin Molita, 25, an asylum seeker who had been denied asylum, was stabbed 20 times in his car in Palmeira Square, Hove, East Sussex.
Vionest Dema, 32, who admitted murder, was sentenced to a minimum of 17 years and six months in prison at the Old Bailey, London's serious crimes court.
His brother Emir, 28, and Flamur Topali, 32, who were found guilty at Lewes Crown Court, were told they would serve at least 16 years in prison.
Altin Molita, who worked at the Pussycat club in Hove, died on May 1, 2004.
He was stabbed in the leg with a 25cm knife after being ambushed outside the club following a long-standing feud with Vionest Dema, who ran a cafe on Queen's Road, Brighton.
The jury at Lewes Crown Court was told that witnesses saw him being chased in a car and then attacked.
The Dema brothers were arrested two days later while trying to leave Britain, hiding in the back of a lorry in Dover.
Announcing the sentence, Mr Justice Bell told them:
"This was a deliberate and brutal murder, carried out in the wake of a blood feud, carried out in two locations on a busy Hove street, with a significant number of law-abiding citizens in the vicinity."
