Muscat: Royal Oman Police (ROP) detectives have solved a murder mystery with the arrest of four Bangladeshis accused of killing a 52-year-old compatriot in Saham, about 211km north of Muscat.
According to a police investigator the four brutally murdered the deceased after torturing him for money. “It was a well-planned murder to steal money from the victim,” the police spokesman told Gulf News.
“A citizen in Saham alerted the police about a foul smell from a neighbouring house,” revealed Abdullah Bin Rashid Al Zaidi, Head of Criminal Investigations at north Batinah, adding that when the police went to the house to investigate they found the victim’s decomposed body in the toilet. “His hands and legs were tied and there were tell-tale signs of beatings on the victim’s body,” he said.
Al Zaidi pointed out that the investigators carried out a thorough probe and zeroed in on four suspects. “All the four Bangladeshi suspects had fled from Saham after committing the heinous crime,” the senior police officer said.
“Three of them fled to Salalah and the fourth accused crossed the border to go to the United Arab Emirates,” he said, adding that first they arrested two from Salalah and had to wait another 24 hours to catch the third suspect from the southern Omani city. “The fourth suspect was extradited with the cooperation of the UAE authorities.”
Al Zaidi said that under interrogation all four confessed to their crime and also revealed the intention behind the murder. “The first defendant [identified only as P.] had planned to rob the victim and included the other three [also identified by their initials P.A., U.A. and M.I.] in his plan in return for half the stolen booty,” he said.
The four invited the victim to a house they had rented for the crime. “They first forcibly restrained the victim and then choked him with a rope while thrashing him with a blunt object on the head until he died,” the officer said.
