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A MAN has confessed to killing his son, by slitting his throat with a knife, over a dispute related to the son’s alleged drug addiction, though an autopsy found no traces of narcotics in his system.
The 63-year-old Pakistani blacksmith yesterday admitted to pre-meditated murder charges at the High Criminal Court and recounted a long history of disputes with the 34-year-old victim, Mohamed Rizwan.
After ending the victim’s life, the Pakistani man called the police on himself, and was seen dressed in ‘blood-stained clothes’ while his son’s body lay lifeless on the floor of their shared apartment in Naim.
“The cut at the victim’s throat was so deep that it reached the spine,” read the autopsy report.
“The fatal wound was the result of a sharp object that was passed on his neck over and over again.”
Despite the father’s claims that his son abused drugs, the medical examiner’s report read that “the victim’s blood tested negative for alkaloids, brain-altering narcotics and alcohol”.
The defendant killed the victim after tying his wrists and feet with a ghitrah, according to the Public Prosecution.
Several witnesses, including the man’s roommate and the shopkeeper of a cold store near Naim, testified that the son behaved erratically and was often violent towards his father, both verbally and physically.
“I live with the defendant, and he had told me that his son back in Pakistan was a drug addict, and that he had sent him to a rehabilitation facility,” said the roommate, a 47-year-old labourer.
“After his condition improved, my roommate brought his son over to Bahrain to work, and he started living with us.
“Since he got here, he began stirring up trouble constantly, and would often hit his father and say awful things to him. On the day of the incident, they started fighting so I left the house to get breakfast.
“When I got back, I saw the defendant sitting on the stairs leading to our apartment, his clothes covered in blood. When I asked him what happened, he told me he had killed his son.”
Another witness, the shopkeeper of the grocery store that the roommates frequented, described the son as ‘unstable’ and stated that he saw him ‘yell for no reason’ and pull at the defendant’s clothes.
The shopkeeper testified that, on the day of the October incident, he had received a phone call from the defendant asking him to call the police and said that he physically assaulted the victim.
Meanwhile, a police officer recounted arriving at the crime scene and hearing first-hand the defendant’s initial confession to the murder, a story which the father maintained throughout his questioning.
“When I got to the apartment, I saw the defendant with bloodstains on his clothes, and the victim on the ground with a cut on his neck, and the murder weapon lying right next to him,” the officer said.
“The man said he did what he did because his son caused him a lot of problems,” he added. “He said that the victim was about to leave the country, but fought with an airport staff member, and ended up staying.
“The father got very angry at that moment and decided to kill his son.”
The hearing has been adjourned to next Sunday, when a court-appointed lawyer is expected to appear and defend the accused.
zainab@gdnmedia.bh
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