London, July 29
A day after he was extradited to the UK from India, 39-year-old Maninder Pal Singh Kohli was charged today with the murder, kidnap and rape of teenager Hannah Foster in March 2003. He was also charged with manslaughter, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice. Kohli was flow into Heathrow airport from India yesterday afternoon.

Hannah (17) was murdered as she walked home from a night out in Southampton. Her body was found two days later and a post-mortem examination revealed she had been raped and strangled.

Kohli, a delivery driver, was arrested in July, 2004, after Hannah's parents went to India to appeal for information.

The Fosters, who are from Southampton in Hampshire, travelled to India three times to try to speed up the extradition process, which has involved more than 100 court appearances since 2004. — PTI