Cassation Court reviews death sentence of man who killed brother

AMMAN — The Court of Cassation started reviewing a Criminal Court death sentence against a 42-year-old man who murdered his brother in the Ein Basha area in September 2015.

The man was sentenced to death last month after being convicted by the Criminal Court of murdering his 44-year-old sibling by shooting him with a pump-action shotgun on September 22, 2015.

According to court documents, he suspected that the victim was involved in a relationship with his Egyptian wife.

“The [at-the-time] defendant’s wife left her husband and returned to Egypt, which angered the defendant because he thought that his brother was involved,” the court transcripts said.

On the day of the incident, the court maintained, the husband, a water tank driver, headed to his brother’s house “and the minute he saw him, he shot him once in the chest with the pump-action”.

The victim’s wife, a mother of five children aged between 18 months and 11 years, refused to drop the charges against her brother-in-law, according to the court verdict.

“The Cassation Court will examine the case, related paperwork and evidence, and will either uphold the ruling or return it to the Criminal Court if the verdict was not accurate,” a judicial source told The Jordan Times.