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A blacksmith who slit his son’s throat after being abused by the psychotic former drug addict has been sentenced to life in prison at the High Criminal Court.
The father had earlier confessed to killing Mohamed Rizwan before calling police to the scene. The Pakistani expatriate was found ‘drenched in blood’.
Fresh details emerged about the case as the verdict was delivered by judges yesterday, outlining the circumstances under which the 63-year-old killed the 34-year-old last October after being attacked by the same knife.
“He cut his son’s throat, leaving behind his humanity and his fatherhood,” the judges verdict read.
The throat wound was so deep that it completely severed the son’s oesophagus and larynx, an autopsy revealed, and one blade plunge even touched his spine.
Only 10 days before the incident, Mr Rizwan had arrived in Bahrain to work alongside his dad, after spending two months in a rehabilitation facility back home to recover from drug addiction.
At first, he ‘appeared completely normal’, the court heard, but he soon began showing symptoms of violent psychosis: fighting with neighbours, hitting his father and insulting him in public.
The defendant could not cope and decided to send his son back to Pakistan. The flight was scheduled four days before the killing, but he reportedly started ‘behaving erratically’ at the airport.
Police officers refused to allow him to board because of his ‘disruptive behaviour’, and so his father booked another flight and planned to personally escort him back to their home country.
“The night before the murder, the victim was screaming the whole night in the room in which the defendant and his two roommates lived,” read the verdict. “They couldn’t sleep and remained awake until the next morning.
“When the roommates left, an argument began between the two, leading the victim to raise a knife against his father.
“The victim tried to attack the defendant twice, but he managed to disarm him both times, and flung the knife across the room.
“Anger and rage came over the defendant, and he overpowered his son, tied his wrists and feet and gagged him. His son tried his best to break free but to no avail.
“With his knee on the victim’s chest and his hand on his forehead, he tilted back his son’s head to reveal his throat.”
The GDN earlier reported that the Pakistani admitted to pre-meditated murder charges at the court and recounted a long history of disputes between them.
Despite his claims that his son was a drug addict, an autopsy found no traces of narcotics in his system, his blood having tested negative for stimulants and alcohol.
According to the autopsy, the cut to the victim’s throat was so deep that it had reached the spine, as a result of the throat being slit ‘over and over again’.
Several witnesses, including the man’s roommate and a cold store manager, testified that the son behaved erratically and was often violent towards his father, both verbally and physically.
The labourer stated that the son would ‘stir up trouble constantly’, hit his dad and ‘say awful things to him’ and that they were fighting on the day of the incident.
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.
A police officer recounted arriving at the crime scene and hearing first-hand the defendant’s initial confession to the murder.
The defendant maintained the same account of his crime throughout his questioning and before judges in court.
zainab@gdnmedia.bh
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