Identity of secret witnesses compromised
Names were revealed in documents shared with defence lawyers.
29 Aug 2019, 9:00 AM
The identities of secret witnesses who testified against three men charged with murder were revealed by the Prosecutor General’s office, a High Court judge said on Wednesday.
Mansoor Yousuf, Mohamed Sufiyan and Athif Rasheed were charged over the murder of 16-year-old Ahmed Aruham in May 2012 while the teenager was asleep in a park in Malé. A fourth person, Mohamed Wisam, was convicted and sentenced to death by the criminal court while his three co-defendants were found not guilty.
At a hearing on the state’s appeal of the acquittals, Judge Shuaib Hussain Zakariyya reportedly stated that prosecutors had revealed names of secret witnesses in a document submitted to court that was also shared with defence lawyers.
The identities were also revealed in final documents submitted to the criminal court, Shuaib said.
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