Court Sentences Man To Death For Assassinating Lawmaker
Morocco's Casablanca appeal court has sentenced a man to death over the assassination of a Moroccan lawmaker while three others were also given capital punishments, official MAP news agency reported on Tuesday.
The report said that the main defendant, Hicham Al Mouchtari, who is an elected member of a local municipal councilor, was sentenced to death.
"Mouchtari was charged with "intentional and premeditated murder and hiding a person that he knew had committed a crime, is sentenced to death.
"Meanwhile, three other convicts were given jail terms from 20 years to life imprisonment,'' the report said.
In March 2017, the 53-year-old Abdellatif Merdas, a politician with the liberal Constitutional Union party, was shot down near his home in the economic city of Casablanca.
The trial revealed an affair between the main convict and the victim's widow and family disputes.
The court sentenced the victim's widow to life imprisonment, and nephew of the municipal councilor to 30 years in prison, the source noted.
The court also sentenced the fourth convict known as "soothsayer," to 20 years in jail.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Morocco, but the North African kingdom has stopped applying it since 1993.
Written by NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE
Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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