A MURDER suspect who was extradited from Pakistan made his first appearance before a crown court judge.

Mohammed Zubair, 36, was charged earlier this week with murdering two men whose bodies were found by the side of a road in the Tong area of Bradford.

Imran Khan, 27, and Ahmedin Sayed Khyel, 35, had both been badly beaten and their bodies were discovered in New Lane back in May 2011.

Zubair was flown back to this country after being in custody in Pakistan since November 2013 and yesterday he appeared at Bradford Crown Court before Judge David Hatton QC after his case was transferred by the city’s magistrates.

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Zubair was only asked to confirm his name during the hearing and neither of the two murder charges were put to him.

Judge Hatton told Zubair that his next appearance at the crown court would be on June 17 and he confirmed that a provisional trial date had been set for November 14.

During the hearing, barrister Elyas Patel, for Zubair, raised the issue of the procedure by which the defendant had been returned to the UK.

After consulting with the senior police officer in the case prosecutor Duncan Ritchie told Judge Hatton that some of the material relating to the extradition would need to come from Pakistan.

Judge Hatton said the prosecution should provide any information they currently had within 14 days and any further inquiries in Pakistan should be started as soon as possible.

“Mohammed Zubair this case will next be before the court on June 17,” said Judge Hatton.

“You will be brought to court on that occasion. Until then you must remain in custody.”

As reported in yesterday’s Telegraph & Argus, a Home Office spokesman has insisted that Zubatir’s extradition - the first from Pakistan to the UK in ten years - had been “subject to the full judicial process before the Pakistan courts”.

One man was convicted at a trial in Bradford in 2012 of the manslaughters of Mr Khan and Mr Khyel.