Court upholds death sentence for murder accomplice
The high court has upheld today the death sentence of a young woman convicted of killing a prominent lawyer, despite her lawyer insisting the death penalty was disproportionate as she was an accomplice to the murder.
10 May 2016, 9:00 AM
The high court has upheld today the death sentence of a young woman convicted of killing a prominent lawyer, despite her lawyer insisting the death penalty was disproportionate as she was an accomplice to the murder.
Fathimath Hana, 21 years, and her partner Ahmed Murrath were sentenced to death on July 19, just three weeks after lawyer Ahmed Najeeb’s after his body was discovered stuffed inside a dustbin, badly beaten with multiple stab wounds.
Murrath had confessed to the murder, claiming the killing happened in a “fit of rage,” allegedly because lawyer had planned to sexually assault Hana, who was 18 years at the time.
Hana did not have legal representation until the appeals court hearings began.
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