Cairo: Saudi authorities have said a citizen has been executed for murdering his 10-year-old son.
The interior ministry said that the man, identified as Mohammed bin Abdullah, had killed his son in cold blood by luring him to a deserted area and “slaughtered him with a knife and repeatedly stabbed him”.
The murderer was later arrested and sentenced to death by a court. The ruling was upheld by an appeals court, the supreme court and a royal approval. The ministry said that the convict was executed on Tuesday in a prison in the Saudi south-western region of Jizan.
The motive for the crime was not officially explained.
The murder took place in 2016 when the man, in his 40s, was released from prison to collect blood money to offer to his cousins after he had killed his uncle, according to a media report.
But he went to his son’s school, picked him up and took him to a deserted house where he killed him, the report said. The son had lived for years with his mother who had separated from the father.
He reportedly planned to kill his daughter.
