Heinous crime: Youth arrested for rape-and-murder

Hairdresser confesses to assaulting four other children.


Our Correspondent January 14, 2015
CCPO Wains urged parents to keep track of their children’s movements. STOCK IMAGE

LAHORE: CCPO Muhammad Amin Wains said on Wednesday that the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) had arrested a 17-year-old hairdresser for molesting and strangling a five-year-old child on January 3 in Green Town area.

CCPO Wains was speaking to reporters at his office. He said a DNA test had confirmed that the boy had committed the offence. CCPO Wains said the case had been referred to CIA SP Umer Virk after the investigation wing had collected substantial evidence from the spot and had zeroed down on nine suspects. He said Virk’s team had nabbed the boy.

The CCPO said an autopsy report of the deceased had confirmed that the victim had been molested several times before being strangled. He said police had carried out DNA tests and polygraphs of the suspects to ascertain the culprit.

CCPO Wains said the results had confirmed that the hairdresser had killed the victim after molesting him. He said the boy had also confessed to committing the crime.

CCPO Wains said SP Virk’s team had nabbed the boy using state-of-the-art investigation methods including forensic evidence.

The hairdresser also confessed in front of reporters. He said he had coaxed the child into following him after he had approached him for a Rs5 donation for Eid Miladun Nabi funds. “I promised to give him Rs50 if he followed me,” the hairdresser said.

He said he had strangled the child after assaulting him because he feared that he would tell on him. The boy said he had earlier assaulted four other boys after giving them money.

CCPO Wains urged parents to keep track of their children’s movements. He said it was binding on masjid committees to screen backgrounds of people involved in administering mosques. CCPO Wains announced a Rs50,000 reward for the team that had cracked the case.

Investigation SSP Rana Ayyaz Saleem and SP Virk were also present on the occasion.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 15th, 2015.

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