Cop killer loses final plea

TDT| Manama

A Bahraini man on death row for his conviction of killing a policeman and injuring several others back in 2017 yesterday got his final plea rejected by the Court of Cassation. According to court files, the appellant was a member of a militant cell that was trained by Iranian Revolutionary Guards to carry out terrorist attacks in Bahrain and targeting policemen.

It was also shown that the cell members were planning to blow up several oil pipelines and assassinate public figures in the Kingdom. “The suspects received extensive military training on the use of explosives and firearms in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard camps, in addition to receiving direct logistic and financial support through escaped terrorists in Iran,” Chief of Public Security Lieutenant-General Tariq Al Hassan said while revealing the results of police investigations in 2017.

The five-member terrorist group was responsible for detonating an explosive device that was hidden under a traffic cone along the highway near Jidhafs, targeting a police bus. The attack, which occurred on October 27, 2017, caused the death of policeman Salman Anjam and injured others.

He was earlier sentenced, along with a fellow gang member, to capital punishment and to pay a BD500 fine. Other members received sentences varying from life in prison to seven years of jail time. The court also ordered to strip all of the involved defendants of their Bahraini citizenship