Thanos Papalexis is accused of killing Charalambos Christodoulides in his north London apartment in 2000. Christodoulides was apparently refusing to move out, while Papalexis was trying to purchase his home and paying tens of thousands of pounds a week in bridging loan interest while he waited.

According to police evidence, the victim was tied to a chair and beaten, sending blood spattering up the walls, strangled and his body soaked in paint-thinner in an effort to throw police dogs off the scent.

Papalexis isn't accused of carrying out the killing himself, but hiring a couple of heavies. He moved to the States in 2001, where he was arrested, at a pizza restaurant, on Friday. He's now expected to be extradited to the UK.

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