Mother’s life in jail sentence upheld in daughter’s kill case

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KUWAIT CITY, Aug 10: The Court of Cassation upheld the verdict of the Court of Appeal and sentenced a Kuwaiti woman to life in prison for killing her daughter and hiding her remains in the bathroom of their Salmiya apartment for five years until the corpse was fully decomposed, reports Al-Rai daily. The Public Prosecutor, Anwar Al-Azmi, had earlier requested the court to hand the woman the death penalty for committing the ghastly crime.

The court had slapped three charges against the accused — deliberately refraining from not taking care of her daughter, withholding her freedom, and violating the sanctity of the dead – all of which she denied, saying when she saw her daughter lying on the ground cold and her face pale yellow, she knew that she was dead, and was afraid to inform anyone even her children.

In one of the trial sessions, the judge asked if any of her sons were present, and one of them stood up during the trial session and testified that his mother had always informed him that his sister was locked in a room in the apartment and that she prevented her from leaving, and when one day he informed his mother and threatened her that he wants to live in an apartment alone and take his sister with him, his mother informed him that his sister was no longer alive and that her body was in the house.

The son, who was in his 20s, immediately informed the Salmiya Police Station. He said he quarreled with his mother because she killed his sister in 2016 and kept her body in the bathroom of the apartment they live in, in Salmiya. Personnel from the Criminal Evidences Department searched the apartment and found the fully decomposed remains in the bathroom of the apartment following which the man and his other brother were arrested and taken for questioning.

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