High Court hears appeal from Muleeage bomb convict
18 Oct 2017, 9:00 AM
The High Court on Wednesday began hearing an appeal from a man found guilty of planting a bomb near the official presidential residence in November 2015.
After a secret trial, Mohamed Ubaid was handed a 17-year jail term in June last year along with co-defendants Zihan Ahmed and Thal’ath Mohamed. A fourth suspect, Mohamed Mamdhooh, was sentenced to 20 years.
They were charged with terrorism and accused of planting an improvised explosive device on a fuel tank of a vehicle parked near Muleeaage.
A High Court media official told the Maldives Independent that opening statements were presented at the first hearing today. A spokesman from the Prosecutor General’s office was unavailable for comment despite repeated calls.
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