QUNFUDA, 16 July 2006 — The criminal court in Qunfuda has recorded the confessions of an Arab expatriate two-and-half years after he killed his friend and fled the country, Al-Riyadh newspaper reported yesterday.
The Saudi police arrested the man after he was returned to the Kingdom with Interpol’s help.
According to the confession, the man murdered his friend in November 2004 shortly after the Eid prayers in a rural area near Qunfuda. In the course of a dispute, the suspect took a large stick and beat the other one on his head so severely that he fell dead instantly. The man carried the dead body at first to a nearby forest area to hide it but changed his mind as he came across some shepherds. Then he took the body to his house where he dug a hole in the bedroom and buried the body. The man fled the country fours days later. Police uncovered the body 12 days after the crime.
Circumstantial evidence pointed at the Arab expat who was the last to be seen with the murder victim. The shepherds also told the police that they had seen an Arab man carrying a heavy package in their area.
Elderly Saudi Beaten, Robbed
BAHA, 16 July 2006 — An elderly Saudi man was beaten and robbed by three expatriates at a coffee shop in the town of Balqarn, Al-Riyadh newspaper reported yesterday. Police were able to detain three suspects as they attempted to flee the scene of the crime.
