Murder of expat: Case adjourned

Manama : The Supreme Appeals Court yesterday adjourned hearing the appeals of two Bangladeshi men accused of murdering a fellow countryman until December 27 for review.

The badly decomposed body of Bangladeshi national Haris Kanu Miah was found buried under the boulders at the under-construction Al Louzy housing project in Hamad Town on August 3, 2014. The body was discovered after a passerby noticed a foul smell.

The defendants told the prosecutors that Miah had been sharing a room with them for three months and owed them BD50.

Forensic report showed that the victim was tied up and gagged with a cloth and duct tape before being beaten to death.

Court files say the defendants also stole the mobile phone and wallet of the victim before stuffing his body in a suitcase and burying it on June 14, 2014.

A 35-year-old Indian pick-up driver told prosecutors earlier that he had given the convicts a lift on the day of the incident.

“They stopped me in Manama and asked me to drop them in Demistan. I noticed they had a suitcase, which was tied with a yellow rope covered with duct tape and cloth,” he said in his statement to prosecutors.