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Qatar upholds death for UK teacher''s killing
(MENAFN- Arab News) DOHA: A Qatari court on Monday upheld a death sentence against a local man convicted of the murder of British schoolteacher Lauren Patterson.
Doha''s Court of Appeal confirmed the sentence against Badr Hashim Khamis Abdallah Al-Jabar as Patterson''s mother Alison who had traveled from Britain for the hearing watched on.
Although the death penalty is still handed down as a punishment in Qatar it has been 12 years since the last execution took place and they are usually replaced by long prison sentences.
The last person executed in Qatar was killed by firing squad.
Al-Jabar''s accomplice Mohamed Abdallah Hassan Abdul Aziz also had his sentence of three years for helping to burn the 24-year-old''s body and disposing of evidence confirmed at the same short hearing on Monday.
Both men are Qatari citizens.
Patterson from Kent in southern England was murdered in October 2013 after leaving a nightclub in central Doha with a female friend and the two convicted men.
The friend had previously told a court that she was dropped off by the men first who then assured her they would drive Patterson home.
That was the last time the teacher was seen alive. She was sexually assaulted stabbed and her remains burned and found in a desert location outside Doha. Both men were acquaintances of the young Briton.
During the original trial a court said that Patterson had been stabbed twice. Al-Jabar maintained he had accidentally stabbed Patterson after the pair had got into a fight which she had started.
Doha''s Court of Appeal confirmed the sentence against Badr Hashim Khamis Abdallah Al-Jabar as Patterson''s mother Alison who had traveled from Britain for the hearing watched on.
Although the death penalty is still handed down as a punishment in Qatar it has been 12 years since the last execution took place and they are usually replaced by long prison sentences.
The last person executed in Qatar was killed by firing squad.
Al-Jabar''s accomplice Mohamed Abdallah Hassan Abdul Aziz also had his sentence of three years for helping to burn the 24-year-old''s body and disposing of evidence confirmed at the same short hearing on Monday.
Both men are Qatari citizens.
Patterson from Kent in southern England was murdered in October 2013 after leaving a nightclub in central Doha with a female friend and the two convicted men.
The friend had previously told a court that she was dropped off by the men first who then assured her they would drive Patterson home.
That was the last time the teacher was seen alive. She was sexually assaulted stabbed and her remains burned and found in a desert location outside Doha. Both men were acquaintances of the young Briton.
During the original trial a court said that Patterson had been stabbed twice. Al-Jabar maintained he had accidentally stabbed Patterson after the pair had got into a fight which she had started.
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