A law student has been accused of murdering her husband who was stabbed to death in a hotel.

Yasira Pervez, 23, of Pendle Street, Accrington, and co-defendent Ian Priddle, 46, of Jubilee Road, Haslingden, are accused of 21-year-old Khurum Mukhtar's murder.

Mr Mukhtar died in December 2006 after being found with serious injuries in a hotel in Rawalpindi, 35 miles south of Islamabad.

Despite Mr Mukhtar dying in Pakistan, the murder trial will be held in England.

Pervez and Priddle appeared in Manchester City Magistrates' Court today.

The pair were originally detained when a Pakistan International Airlines flight landed at Manchester Airport on January 1, 2007.

They were bailed while investigations took place.

An inquiry into the incident took place between officers from Greater Manchester Police's major incident team along with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Pakistani authorities.

Rawalpindi police had contacted the British authorities through Interpol for extradition of the pair.

But a spokeman for Greater Manchester Police said that the court case would go ahead in this country.

Britain does not have an extradition agreement with Pakistan as the country has the death penalty.

Mr Mukhtar was allegedly attacked in a bedroom at the Comfort Inn hotel in the Mothimahal district of Rawalpindi on December 30, 2006.

His body was discovered by a waiter and the emergency services were called.

He died shortly after in hospital but investigators said that he was able to speak to witnesses before he died.

Police said that he had been repeatedly stabbed.

Pervez married Mr Mukhtar, her Pakistani cousin, in his homeland in 2004.

At the court hearing today neither Pervez or Priddle entered a plea and were remanded in custody.

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