Bangladesh girl gets death penalty for killing parents

DHAKA, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) — A Bangladesh court in capital Dhaka sentenced a girl to death on Thursday after convicting her of murder of her parents about two years ago.
Judge MD Sayeed Ahmed of the Dhaka‘s Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 said Oishee Rahman, the only daughter of slain inspector of Special Branch (SB) of Bangladesh Police and his wife, was an adult when she killed her parents.
He said, “Therefore, there is no way to consider her a minor.”
“I’ve no alternative but to give death sentence to a child like girl as as she had committed the per-planned killings in a cool head,” said the judge while delivering the judgement.
On Aug. 16, 2013, police found the bodies of Special Branch Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Swapna Rahman at their flat in Dhaka.
In the charge sheet, DB Inspector Abul Khair pointed to Oishee, an O level student, as the murderer of her parents by stabbing them indiscriminately after mixing sleeping pills with their coffee after they tried to stop her from taking drugs.
According to the charge sheets, the girl alone killed her parents.
The girl’s friend Mizanur Rahman Roni was given two years of rigorous jail term for giving shelter to her while her another friend Asaduzzaman Johnny was acquitted of the charges.
The charge sheet also said the couple had been given seven sedatives mixed in tea or coffee before they were killed.
Oishee was reportedly furious with her parents, specially her mother as they did not allow the drug-addict daughter to get out of the house.
The medical report also found her mentally unstable as she had been taking the contraband yaba tablets before and during the murder.
Defending Oishee at the court, her lawyer Faruk had earlier argued that since the girl was a minor when the murders took place, her trial must be held at a juvenile court instead of a general court, as per the law.
In her written statement on Oct. 20 this year, the girl reportedly alleged that police had coerced her to falsely confess to the murder of her parents.
Her lawyers say they will move an appeal with the High Court Division of the Supreme Court against the court’s verdict.  Enditem