‘Death penalty based on compelling evidence’

Manama : The final death penalty sentence upheld against the convicts indicted in the Daih bomb blast was based on compelling evidence, said Haroun Alzayani, Attorney General affiliated with the Public Prosecutor’s technical office.

The evidence included the witnesses’ testimonies, the convicts’ own confessions, the material tools and telecommunication devices which were found with the executed convicts and others.

Results of forensic reports also corroborated with the verbal testimonies, material evidence as well as the circumstances that surrounded the Daih deadly explosion. 

The High Criminal Court took into consideration the detailed compelling evidence in issuing the death verdict, which was upheld respectively by the High Court of Appeals and then by the Court of Cassation.

The convicts were caught with materials and substances which used in making the lethal explosives.

Human cells collected from one bomb which was defused at the scene of the blast were found to be matching with the DNA of one of the executed convicts.

Forensic examination of the mobile phones revealed that the convicts used a special programme in their communications. The taped conversations revealed that the trio used the same programme during the days before the blast.

The investigation revealed that the two mobile phones which were used in detonating the bomb that targeted the security forces had been tested the night before the blast.

The reports submitted by the coroner and the forensic experts matched with the convicts’ confessions, regarding the nature of the substances which were used to make the bomb and the detonation technique.

The convicts received fair public trials and all the legal guarantees, in the presence of their lawyers, who had access to the case before delivering their pleadings.

Twelve judges handled the case during the different stages of judicial litigation and found the evidence compelling, dismissing any presumed doubt and finding no reason to grant the convicts mercy or commute the death penalty.