TWO men jailed for 15 years each for detonating a bomb that injured nine policemen have lost their final appeals.
The Bahrainis, aged 24 and 28, were part of a group of eight rioters who set up illegal roadblocks in Demistan on October 26, 2013.
They then lured policemen to the area where they had planted a bomb fitted with nails to “inflict maximum injuries and fatalities”, according to High Criminal Court documents.
The policemen who were sent to the area to clear the roadblocks were injured in the subsequent explosion.
They were taken to the BDF Hospital.
In April 2015, the two defendants were found guilty of attempted murder, possessing Molotov cocktails and detonating a homemade bomb and sentenced, in absentia, to 15 years in jail each.
However, they were later arrested and they lodged appeals against their convictions at the Supreme Criminal Appeals Court which upheld their sentences in March.
The Cassation Court kicked out their final appeal yesterday.
“The defendants lured the officers into an ambush in Demistan, where they planted a bomb fitted with nails,” read the final appeal ruling.
“They hid the device under a palm tree with the aim of killing as many policemen as possible.
“Officers who were dispatched to clear the illegal roadblocks were injured in the explosion.
“Several policemen were treated for their injuries on their hands and ears and police vehicles suffered damages in the attack.
“Fingerprints belonging to some of the defendants were lifted from the crime scene.”
Six others involved in the attack received the same sentences and lost their final appeals at the Cassation Court in February.
All of them were also ordered to pay a combined BD535,720 – being the cost of damages to the police patrol vehicles.
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