Six years for attempted murder

nyundoTendai Rupapa Senior Court Reporter
The Pakistani man who attempted to kill his benefactor had connived with his Zimbabwean girlfriend and a taxi driver to commit the crime has been slapped with a six-year jail term. The unnamed taxi driver was allegedly waiting outside the house during the commission of the crime waiting to collect the body and dispose of it.

The taxi driver sped away after Arsalani Ahmed (24) informed him that he had failed to kill Muhammed Ovais. Ahmed told the court on Friday, before being sentenced that he fell in love with the unnamed Zimbabwean woman after she was introduced to him by the taxi driver.

But he feared that Ovais would not allow him to marry her since as Muslims, they were forbidden to marry Christians.

This, he told regional magistrate Mr Hoseah Mujaya, prompted him to hatch the plan with his girlfriend and the taxi driver to kill Ovais so that he would proceed with his marriage plans.

Ahmed said he also wanted to steal Ovais’ money and flee the country.

He hit Ovais with a gas cylinder before stabbing him with a knife while he watched television.

In passing the sentence, Mr Mujaya said the offence was premeditated, adding that the way it was perpetrated was brutal.

“The major reason why I wanted him dead is that I intended to marry my girlfriend, but I knew that he would not allow such”, said Ahmed after being asked why he committed the offence.

“We then sat down the three of us (taxi driver, the girlfriend and himself) and the taxi driver said he would make arrangements to make Ovais deported, but we then realised it was going to be difficult to have him deported for no reason.

“We then connived and decided to kill him. The taxi driver said I was the one who was supposed to kill him and leave the rest to him after the intended murder. When I committed the offence, he was actually parking his vehicle some metres away from the house waiting to collect the body.

“He sped away after I told him that I had failed to kill him.”

Ahmed said he never heard from his girlfriend and the taxi driver since the day he attempted to kill Ovais.

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