Death sentence convict’s appeal hearing adjourned

The High Appeals Court has adjourned the case of a Sudanese man accused of murdering a drunk Indian national, until October 28, 2019. The convict was previously sentenced to death. According to court details, the 41-year-old suspect tortured his victim to death while recording the act on a camera, quite similar to the ‘Islamic State’ killing. “The Sudanese national chased the Indian man to his apartment after confronting him on a street in Hoora,” the Prosecutors say.      

A medical report stated that the Indian man was strangled to death after being beaten up. During the hearing, the accused had told court that he committed the act “out of his love for Bahrain”. “I hate drunken men walking through the streets of Bahrain.   “I didn’t have any relationship with the victim. I first saw him on the day of the incident at dawn and he was drunk. I was talking with my Bahraini friends on the road and I stopped him.

“I asked him about his religion and Prophet Mohammed, and because I love Bahrain and I don’t like to see drunken people walking in public, I ordered him to show me his ID. But he ran away.” The defendant came to know the accommodation of his victim through one of his friends. “I went to his apartment because I wanted to advise him. He opened the door for me, and I entered inside. He locked the door and attacked me. And I responded in self-defence,” he revealed.  

The defendant then proceeded with torturing the victim before murdering him. To manipulate investigators, he is said to have written slogans on the walls of the apartment to frame a particular sect in the murder and walk free.  The defendant, a medical engineering graduate, came to the Kingdom in search of a job. According to court details, his sister works here as a doctor.