Feb. 2
KAZAKHSTAN:
Serial killer received 26 years of custody
The Karaganda Oblast court pronounced the sentence on the serial killer.
He was convicted for 26 years of confinement.
The murderer, aged 23, October 7, 2004 in one night knifed 3 young girls
and injured 2 men. The cause of the accident, in his words, was a quarrel
with his girl-friend and the guy wanted to have revenge. But he was not
able to explain the motive of the crime.
The accused admitted his guilt. During his last words the young man
repented of the done and apologized to the relatives of the lost. The
prosecutor and the relatives asked for death sentence but there is a
moratorium on capital punishment in Kazakhstan.
(source: Kazinform)
INDIA:
Death penalty awarded to murderer
The Ernakulam CBI special judge on Wednesday sentenced to death the lone
accused in the sensational Aluva multiple murder case.
But the sentence of accused Antony (Anthappan), 38, Vatican Street, Aluva,
will be subjected to confirmation of the High Court, judge B Kamal Pasha
said, in the judgment.
The sentence was passed after hearing the accused and CBI on the quantum
of sentence. On Monday, the court had found him guilty for murdering the
6-member family of Manjooran Veettil Augustine by chopping one by one.
The court observed that the manner eliminating an entire family of 6
including 2 innocent children was brutal and heinous. The case would come
in the category of the rarest of rare cases, distinguished by the Supreme
Court. It is therefore a fit case to impose death penalty.
The prosecution case was that in order to find out funds to meet visa
expenses to go abroad for employment, the accused trespassed into the
house of victims on January 6, 2001 and chopped Augustine, 48, his wife
Mary, 42, their children Divya, 14, Jesmon, 12, Augustine's mother
Clara,80, and sister Kochurani, 38, one by one and thereafter stole money
and gold ornaments and caused disappearance of the evidence. Antony is a
distant relative of the diseased and he was refused financial help to seek
a job in the Gulf by the Manjooran family. The death it is argued was an
act of revenge.
The court convicted the accused under sections 302 (murder) 379 (theft)
449 (house trespass) and 201 (destruction of evidence).
(source: The Times of India)
