Court to hear four murder cases today

Manama : The High Criminal Court will be swarmed today with murder cases including that of the cold-blooded killing of Bahraini imam. Two suspects in the imam murder trial are expected to appear before the court for the first time in a “speedy trial” as described by Chief Prosecutor Ahmed Al Hammadi. The imam’s body was cut into pieces and was found inside plastic bags, near a scrapyard in Askar more than a month ago. Subsequently, the main suspect, a prayer caller at the same mosque in Muharraq, where the imam worked, was arrested along with his accomplice. The main accused is a 35-year-old Bangladeshi national who was allegedly into free visa trade.

“The imam had warned him many a time against engaging in free visa trade and he killed him in an act of revenge,” according to sources. The court will also hear the case of a Bahraini man accused of beheading a Filipina woman and pulling her eyes out. The defendant had told prosecutors that he committed the crime after his victim forced him into having sex at her house. “She hugged and kissed me. I tried to avoid her but she wouldn’t leave me. After a few minutes, I got angry, grabbed a knife and stabbed her several times before beheading and pulling her eyes out.”

In the third case, a Bahraini man accused of murdering his father will appear before the court after the medical report confirmed that he was responsible for the murder. The 31-year-old self-confessed drug addict told prosecutors that he didn’t intend to murder his father but was provoked by his brother to commit the crime. The fourth hearing will see a Sudani national, accused of murdering an Indian national, appearing before the court. The 41-year-old suspect had told prosecutors that he killed the man “out of his love for Bahrain”.

“I saw my victim in an inebriated state on the road and advised him to stop drinking. But he was not seriously listening to me. I followed him to his apartment and strangled him to death following a fight,” the man had told prosecutors.