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AFP/Doha
A Qatari court yesterday upheld verdicts in the case of two men convicted in the murder of a British school teacher, Lauren Patterson.
Doha’s Court of Appeal confirmed the convictions against Badr Hashim Khamis Abdallah al-Jabar for murder and Mohamed Abdallah Hassan Abdul Aziz for helping to burn the 24-year-old’s body and disposing of evidence. Al-Jabar has been sentenced to death and Aziz to three years in prison.
Patterson, from Kent in southern England, was murdered in October 2013 after leaving a hotel in central Doha with a friend and the two convicted men. She was sexually assaulted, stabbed and her remains burnt and found in a desert location outside Doha.
The two men were originally convicted in March last year.
However they appealed their conviction on the basis that they had been tortured by prison guards and held in solitary confinement.
Patterson’s mother Alison had travelled from Britain to be in court to hear the final verdict and was accompanied by friends and former colleagues of her daughter.
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