‘Murder? I was too busy tending my bees,’ says wanted Albanian gangster

An Albanian accused of ordering a blood feud murder has told a court he is just a humble beekeeper. Lorenc Lala, 48, was arrested in June after the Albanian authorities issued a provisional warrant for his arrest and extradition. Lala had been living undetected in Britain for four years. He allegedly paid £42,000 for a hit on Albi Bashaliu in 2021 in revenge for the killing of another man, in the village of Gjocaj. Mr Bashaliu was sitting in a…