JEDDAH: Imtihan, the 19-year-old girl who was allegedly murdered last week by her father because she wanted to study medicine, will not be buried until the forensics team has completed a post-mortem examination.
More details of the gruesome murder emerged yesterday. The girl’s stepfather, Abdullah Al-Ghamdi, told Al-Madinah newspaper that he and several neighbors tackled the father — whose clothes were covered in blood — as he was fleeing the crime scene.
The girl’s grandmother, who was in the next room, died of a heart attack shortly after learning that her former son-in-law had stabbed and slit the throat of her teenage granddaughter in their apartment located in Jeddah’s Faisaliyah district.
Al-Ghamdi said the girl’s father seldom visited her and was not meeting any of her educational expenses.
The stepfather said that the last time the man had visited was shortly after the girl had passed her secondary school exams and enrolled at a medical college in Jeddah. He added that the man had tried to withdraw the girl from the college claiming that as her guardian he had the right to object to her studying medicine.
The girl’s uncles intervened and managed to gain admission for her despite the objections by her father.
On Wednesday, he reportedly called Imtihan and told her that he was coming to meet her.
She received him and showed him her medical textbooks and notes, the newspaper said. It was then that, according to the witnesses, he stabbed the girl and slit her throat.
