Targeting Elderly Women: Serial killer sentenced to death

District and Session Judge imposes a fine of Rs700,000 on serial killer.

SIALKOT: A local court sentenced a serial killer, charged with abducting and killing 13 elderly women, to death on Wednesday.

The killer, who is to undergo life imprisonment before hanging to death, is yet to face 12 other murder cases. The killer, identified as Muhammad Yousaf, is said to be involved in 22 robberies, mostly in the limits of Cantt, Ugoki, Kotwali, Motrah and Sadder Sialkot police stations. District and Session Judge Sialkot Manzoor Hussain Dogar also imposed a fine of Rs700, 000. The accused will have to serve an additional six months if he is not able to pay the fine. Yousaf, a bachelor and a mechanical engineering graduate, was charged with kidnapping elderly and single women and killing them.





Published in The Express Tribune, June 16th, 2011.