The Kuwaiti Court of Cassation concluded one of Kuwait’s most notorious and heinous murder cases, handing down a death sentence to the convict for the murder of Farah Akbar after overturning an earlier verdict by the Court of Appeal’s that sentenced him to life imprisonment.
Public Prosecution charged the man with the kidnapping and murder of Akbar in April this year.
Court documents show that the convict had abducted Akbar, stabbed her to death and then left her body outside a hospital in eastern Kuwait on March 13, 2021.
Authorities said the man had seized Akbar from her car and taken her to an unknown location before dumping her. She was pronounced dead outside the hospital.
Public Prosecution also said that the accused had deliberately planted a tracking device in the victim’s vehicle that enabled him to track her movements.
The case of the murder of Farah Akbar, a crime that shocked Kuwaiti society, was reopened after the Public Prosecutor’s Office appealed the ruling that imprisoned the accused for life, and demanded that it toughen the penalty to death due to the availability of the elements of premeditated murder.
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