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Murder suspect suffers from ‘camera-related paranoia’

TDT | Manama

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A man accused of murdering his neighbour in Shakhura is due to face closing arguments on 2 June, as the High Criminal Court examined claims he suffers from a paranoid obsession with surveillance cameras.

The case was adjourned to 2 June. The defendant, in his forties, remains behind bars.

This was the fifth session in the trial.

The court heard from the defendant’s sister, who said her brother had long shown signs of psychological disturbance.

She described him as withdrawn, wary of others, and easily unsettled by the sight of cameras.

Suspicion

He believed he was being watched, she said, and had repeatedly destroyed security cameras at the victim’s home out of suspicion.

She told the court he had no social life to speak of, and after a stay in a psychiatric hospital, claimed to see evil people in animal form — monkeys in particular.

She added that her daughter had once filmed him with her phone, prompting him to demand the footage be deleted.

Her brother gave a similar account. He said the dispute stemmed from a fifth set of cameras installed by the victim, fitted with motion sensors that, he said, upset the accused.

During a later attempt at treatment, the defendant refused to talk about the incident, fearing he was being monitored.

His brother said that during a prison visit, the accused refused to use the phone and kept looking around the room.

He said the defendant had drifted between jobs, had no friends, and did not use a mobile phone. He was unsure whether any formal diagnosis had ever confirmed hallucinations.