A court in Somalia slaps 3 with death penalty for murder over love match

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A regional court in Mogadishu, the Somali capital on Tuesday, April 30 has sentenced three people, including a woman, to death for "burning man alive" last year, Garowe Online reports.

The three defendants, two from the same family and a woman were all found guilty of brutally killing Ahmed Mukhtar Salah "Ahmed Dowlo" last September after his nephew married their daughter secretly.

Ahmed Dowlo from ethnically discriminated Bantu clan was torched to death by a lynch-mob from in-laws after his nephew married to a different so-called “high-ranking” clan in a Garage in Yaqshid district.

The court has acquitted four others convicted for involvement in the murder case while one of the three people sentenced to death on Tuesday is at large, according to the victim’s family.

Mohamed Mukhtar who is the brother of the victim, said still justice has not been serviced, arguing that others involved in the case, including the bride's mother who allegedly orchestrated the killing, are free.

The father of the bride had accepted the marriage and give the couple his blessing, but, the mother’s side protested according to a relative and subsequently committed the heinous killing.

Unfortunately, the couples were on their honeymoon in somewhere in Mogadishu at the time of the murder which caused shock and outrage in the country, triggering calls from the public for justice.

GAROWE ONLINE