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Twenty-seven-year-old Tony Vincent Ashman, who is wanted in the United Kingdom (UK) for murder, was ordered extradited when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.
Ashman is wanted by the British government for the fatal shooting of a man at a nightclub in Brixton in 2009.
The shooting was reportedly captured on video, but Ashman fled to Jamaica following the incident.
On April 14, the court ordered his release after former justice minister Dorothy Lightbourne failed to sign off on the surrender warrant for his extradition.
The court said then that it had no other choice but to release him because of the minister's action.
However, the UK government later reapplied to the Jamaican authorities for the extradition of Ashman.
He was rearrested two weeks ago, approximately five months after the Supreme Court ordered his immediate release from police custody.
Meanwhile, Ashman's attorney, Oswald James, who is contending that the rearrest of his client is an abuse of the process of the court, is to file a writ before the Supreme Court today seeking the release of his client.
