Life Terms Budaiya Killing

Defendants confessed to tracking victim for two months before fatal attack

TDT | Manama

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Two Asian men have been jailed for life for murdering a man in his fifties in Budaiya after stalking him for nearly two months in what prosecutors called a planned revenge killing.

The High Criminal Court also ordered the men, aged 25 and 28, to be deported from Bahrain for good once they have served their terms.

The victim, an Asian man of the same nationality as the defendants, was killed on 28 December 2025 in the Northern Governorate. Prosecutors said the pair bought a knife and a cleaver for the attack, watched his movements for around two months, and lay in wait near his home after learning when he usually left and returned.

As he came back to his house, the court heard, one man attacked him from the front while the other came from behind. They then struck him with the knife and cleaver in different parts of his body, meaning to kill him, prosecutors said. His wounds, listed in the post-mortem report, led to his death.

A police investigation officer told the court he went to the scene after a report was made and found the victim lying on the ground, surrounded by blood.

Footprints were found nearby. He said police inquiries, confidential sources and security camera footage from a nearby house led officers to the two men. The footage showed the pair attacking the victim with the knife and cleaver, with the blows aimed mainly at the upper part of his body, he said.

The officer added that they did not stop when the victim fell. They kept striking him until he stopped moving.

Police later arrested the men as they tried to flee across King Fahd Causeway, the court was told. Both admitted their role in the killing.

A witness of Arab nationality said he had left work and was speaking to his mother on the phone while walking to drink karak when he heard screams in a passageway. He saw two men carrying sharp tools and attacking the victim.

He shouted at them and they ran away, he told the court. One of them then returned to the scene, picked up a bag and fled again.

A Bahraini witness said he was at home when he heard the victim calling for help. He opened a window and saw the man lying alone on the ground, covered in blood. He called the police and later gave them footage from his home cameras after they asked for it.

The victim’s brother told the court that his brother had spent 12 years in prison in their home country over what he described as a malicious murder case before being cleared. He said he brought him to Bahrain because he was being pursued at home and feared he would be killed.

The brother said the victim had been in Bahrain for three months. Five days before the attack, he had gone to perform Umrah and told him that others were still following him.

He also claimed that one of the defendants had followed another of his brothers to a European country, where that brother had been sent for safety, and killed him there. He showed the court a photograph of one defendant with another man whom he described as the person giving the orders.

A forensic doctor said the victim had stab, cut and blunt-force wounds caused by hard objects with sharp edges. The injuries were concentrated on his upper body, and several would have been enough to kill him.

A police officer also told the court that the defendants later led officers to their home and showed them the tools used in the killing.