Police claim teenage boat blast suspect ‘may kill’ if released from remand
A lawyer representing Ahmed ‘Shumba Gong’ Ashraf said: “The police have previously said he is influencing witnesses and my client is being investigated for allegedly sending threat messages, but it is absurd that they now claim he might kill someone.”
24 Jan 2016, 9:00 AM
The criminal court today extended the remand detention of an 18-year-old associate of former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb for a seventh time after police argued that “he may kill a person” if released.
Ahmed Ashraf, a social media activist known as ‘Shumba Gong,’ was arrested in Sri Lanka on November 1 in connection to a blast on President Abdulla Yameen’s speedboat. Adeeb appears to be the prime suspect in the alleged assassination plot.
Chief Judge Abdulla Mohamed granted a five-day extension of pre-trial detention.
Ashraf’s lawyer Nazim Abdul Sattar told The Maldives Independent that he was worried about the claims made by police to justify their request for an extension of his client’s remand.
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