John Woodward
An Albanian national has been extradited from Albania and charged with the murder on a construction site of John Woodward in London in 2018.
Elton Sefa, 22, was arrested by Albanian authorities in the city of Durres on 28 February following an extradition request. He arrived in the UK on 14 January and has been taken into custody.
He has been charged with murder and was due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday (15 January).
The arrest follows an incident on 17 April 2018 when the London Ambulance Service was called to the Pressman Mastermelts building in Hatton Garden after reports of a man injured on the roof.
Woodward, a 47-year-old builder who was working at the venue, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Initial reports indicated that he may have fallen from height, but a post-mortem examination took place at St Pancras Mortuary on Thursday, 19 April and gave the cause of death as blunt force trauma to the head.
Police initially arrested a 24-year-old man on suspicion of murder on 18 April 2018 but he was de-arrested and then arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender. The offence was not proceeded with.
