Five charged with premeditated murder by first female prosecutor

AMMAN — The Criminal Court prosecutor on Sunday charged five men with premeditated murder in connection with the alleged stabbing death of a man in Amman over old family feuds during the weekend, a judicial source said.

The 42-year-old victim was leaving a mosque in Baqaa refugee camp at around 11:00pm when five men reportedly attacked him, the judicial source told The Jordan Times.

The five suspects, aged between 17 and 22 years, then fled the scene and were later arrested by the authorities, the source added.

Criminal Court Prosecutor Jawaher Jbour, the first female investigator to assume such functions, rushed to the scene to investigate the murder, according to the judicial source.

“Jbour examined the murder scene and later supervised the autopsy of the victim, which revealed that the victim had received seven stab wounds on different parts of his body,” the judicial source said.

In their initial testimony to Jbour and other law enforcement agencies, the suspects, four of whom are close relatives of the victim, stated that they had had “constant family feuds with the victim over the past years”, a second source told The Jordan Times.

The tension between the family members escalated, “and the defendants decided to murder the victim”, according to the second source. 

The suspects reportedly “monitored the victium for a while and waited for him after the end of the prayer when they attacked and killed him”, according to the second source.

Jbour ordered that four of the five suspects be detained at a correctional rehabilitation centre for 15 days pending further investigation, the source said, noting that the fifth suspect was sent to a juvenile correctional and rehabilitation centre.