Jeshma was stabbed as she walked home from school

Viktors Dembovskis, 42, who had lived near Jeshma in west London, is in custody in Preile, south-east Latvia.

Jeshma was stabbed to death on 16 May, by a footpath near her home in Sudbury Hill, west London, on her way home after shopping at Wembley High Road.

Mr Dembovskis, a Latvian national, has 10 days to appeal against the ruling.

Prime suspect

"We have decided to extradite Viktors Dembovskis to Great Britain," Andrejs Vasks, a spokesman for the Latvian prosecutor general's office told news agency AFP.

If Mr Dembovskis, who has denied the allegations, decides to appeal it could take up to one month for a court to make a final ruling.

The suspect, who worked in a carwash in London, was arrested after he was discovered in his home town of Livani, in eastern Latvia, earlier this month.

Scotland Yard detectives were joined by Interpol and the Latvian authorities in the hunt for Mr Dembovskis.

Jeshma was reported missing by her parents on 16 May after she failed to return home from school, but it was eight days before her body was found.