Shane O’Brien appears in court over 21-year-old’s killing after being extradited from Romania

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A man arrested in Romania over the fatal stabbing of 21-year-old Josh Hanson in 2015 has appeared in court.

Shane O’Brien, 31, was charged on Friday evening after arriving back in the UK following his extradition from Romania, the Metropolitan police said.

He spoke only to confirm his personal details during a brief hearing at Westminster magistrates court.

Hanson, from Kingsbury in north-west London, was knifed to death in the RE Bar in Hillingdon, west London, in October 2015. He was found with a serious wound to the neck and was pronounced dead at the scene.

A postmortem examination gave the cause of death as haemorrhage, inhalation of blood and an incised wound to the neck.

O’Brien, originally from Ladbroke Grove, west London, was detained in Cluj-Napoca last month and arrived at Heathrow airport at 7.30pm on Friday.

The deputy chief district judge, Tan Ikram, ordered O’Brien to next appear in custody at the Old Bailey on 9 April.