Tiranë's Prosecution

Prosecution Demands 3 More Months to Investigate Hekuran Billa’s Murder

The Tirana Prosecutor's Office has requested a three-month extension of the investigation regarding Sebastian Malin and Viktor Marku. The latter are under the charge of premeditated blood feud murder of Hekuran Bill.

Hekuran Billa was killed on June 11, 2020 while he should have been in prison for life after the murder of Prele Marku in 2006 in England.

Hekuran Billa was sentenced to life imprisonment on the charge of “Murder in qualifying circumstances against 22-year-old Prel Marku and seriously injuring Musa Rrahmani and another person. Billa was then deported from England to Albania in order to serve a life sentence in Albania.

In 2014, the court upheld the life sentence for Bill extradited from England, based on the facts of the British authorities for the murder of Prele Marku.

On 23 February 2019, taking advantage of several courts in the country that recognized the decision of British justice from 32 years to 25 years imprisonment, he was released from prison.

The decision that brought him closer to freedom came from the Court of Kruja, where the prisoner was being held. According to the decision of Judge Enkeleida Hoxha (who is in prison, on charges of abuse of office and corruption) the 40-year-old sentenced to 32 years in prison by British justice had five years left in prison. In February the court found that Billa had spent 19 years in the cell, including the murder he committed in a bar in the UK in October 2006. The court thus established probation.