Defendants killed their co-national following a dispute over BD50!
The High Criminal Appeals Court yesterday upheld the death sentences issued against two Asian men who murdered their fellow national.
The two Bangladeshi men were convicted of killing a fellow countryman following a dispute over BD50.
The badly decomposed body of Bangladeshi national Haris Kanu Miah was found buried under cement and rocks at the under construction Al Louzy housing project in Hamad Town on August 3, 2014.
They were sentenced to death, and an appeals court upheld it. But, the Cassation Court, Bahrain’s highest court, ordered a re-hearing for their appeals in a different appeals court which yesterday upheld their death sentences.
Mr Miah was reported missing on June 16, 2014, and an investigation was launched into his disappearance which led to the arrest of the two convicted men; a 29-year-old labourer and a 26-year-old cleaner.
The duo told prosecutors that Mr Miah had been sharing a room with them for three months and owed them money.
A forensic report showed that the victim was tied up and gagged with a cloth and duct tape before beating him to death.
The defendants didn’t just kill the victim but also stole his mobile phone and wallet before stuffing his body in a suitcase and burying it on June 14, 2014.
The body was discovered after a passer-by noticed a foul smell. 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,” he said, in his statement to prosecutors.
“I gave them a lift and I noticed they had a suitcase, which was tied with a yellow rope covered with duct tape and cloth. I later identified them at a police station.”
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