A bombmaker suspected of supplying a device that prematurely detonated, killing a teenager who was trying to plant it, has lost his appeal against a life jail sentence.
The Supreme Criminal Appeals Court yesterday upheld the verdict, which was delivered by the High Criminal Court in 2017.
Two other youths implicated in the case received the same sentence, but they were convicted in absentia.
All three were tried in connection with the death of 18-year-old terrorist Qassim Abdulla, who blew himself up with C4 explosive on July 13, 2015.
It was one of two devices intended to be detonated simultaneously near a police patrol in East Eker.
He was bending over the device when it went off prematurely, killing him instantly.
A supervisor at a nearby construction company earlier told judges that the force of the blast damaged the firm’s wall, shattered glass windows and left body parts strewn all over the ground.
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