Bloodcurdling Details on Serial Killer’s Crimes [Archives:2000/21/Front Page]
May 22 2000
All family members of the Iraqi victim Zainab agree that they should be the ones who should take revenge for the horrifying crime against their daughter by saying, “We wish to be the ones to carry out the execution.”
Mr. Abdul Jabar Mutlak, Zainab’s uncle, in a detailed interview with Yemen Times, said “The dean and college security officers should shoulder the responsibility for negligence and carelessness. The Criminal Investigation Office is also responsible for delaying investigation into the case till color of the corpse changed.
Besides, there are some students who kept silent though they knew about the disappearance of Zainab. During our search for Zainab, we have been encountered with various kinds of harassment by telephone including threats and we have reported that to the communications center requesting to tap the phone calls we were receiving, but even those people were not serious about it.
Immediately after Zainab’s disappearance, her mother was suspicious of Mohammed Adam whom she had already warned her daughter not to deal with him. To avoid being suspected, Mohammed Adam accompanied by two Yemeni police officers went to her house so as to convince her that he was a good person and a Muslim. The mother has also received many threats ordering her to stop looking for her daughter and that she had to leave the country. Adam has also tried to convince the mother and her brothers, living in Sana’a, to go to the morgue giving them different excuses. However, they refused.
The mother had filed more than 10 complaints at the Criminal Investigation Office, however, almost all of them disappeared in thin air. Moreover, officers at the Criminal Investigation Office laid the responsibility for the missing of Zainab on her family.
Security officers of the Faculty insisted on convincing the mother that her daughter eloped with one of the students, and that was exactly what Mohammed Adam tried to do. Adam told her that she eloped with a friend to Aden. He even gave her a false name of a student so as to make her believe his story. He had also fabricated a story that Zainab had many times expressed her intention to go to Holland.
The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Ahmad Al-Hadad, was furious when Zainab’s mother informed him on disappearance of her daughter and said “The Faculty is not responsible for looking for those who disappear in such a way. I am not responsible for 5000 students.” Then, he kicked her out of the Faculty.
The Criminal Investigation Office tried to change the case from a criminal one, according to the mother’s report, to an immoral case by accusing Zainab herself of committing it.
Later on, Security authorities and Criminal Investigation Office found Zainab’s body buried in the drainage of the morgue after being mutilated. They discovered that her Kidneys, heart, womb and liver had all been taken from her body.
Mr Abdul Jabbar has added that anyone who sees the scene of the crime and the way it was committed, he would not believe that Adam was acting on his own.
Regarding the bribe that was given by Zainab to Mohammed Adam, her uncle said “There was a Sudanese student who used to talk to the students who fail in anatomy subject to give him bribes and he guarantees their success.”
Her uncle commented on some newspaper’s reports of interviews conducted with Adam by saying that those reports were in Adam’s favor. He also mentioned that he is going to file a case against a Gulf newspaper that reported something he didn’t say.
Zainab’s family demands the execution of Adam and mutilation of his body as he did with the body of their daughter. They also expressed their wish to be the ones who will carry out the execution.
It is also reported that the luggage of Adam, which are said to contain some important documents about his crimes so far and have already been sent by him to Sudan, were brought back last Wednesday to Sana’a by the Yemeni investigator sent by the Ministry of Interior. However, it is not clear what the luggage contained.
In a press statement, an official in the Ministry of Interior described what had been reported by newspapers as exaggerated indicating that only two girls were killed by the suspect, and that the college didn’t receive any complaints about missing students other than those from the two victims’ families. Thanking the Sudanese authorities for their cooperation, he added that investigations were still going on to gather further information.
The College Board of Directors issued a statement mentioning that they said that the suspect was fired in the beginning of February 2000, after he was accused of taking bribes from students.
The suspect regretted killing Zainab for she was the key reason to unraveling his crimes. Preliminary interrogations with the suspect revealed his confession to killing other girls in Sudan, Kuwait, Jordan and Lebanon.
On the other hand, the suspect has been reported to attempt committing suicide in prison.
Students are still carrying on sit-in strikes demanding the deposition of the College Dean.
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On the other hand, the Sudanese community in Yemen has condemned in a statement the crimes perpetrated by the Sudanese national Mohammed Adem, a morgue assistant at medicine faculty, Sana’a University.
The community statement demanded that justice takes its course so that the criminal be punished and to be an example to any pervasive, expressing the community’s condolences to the victims’ families.
The statement has also confirmed the community’s keenness on abiding by all operative laws and regulations aimed at protecting lives and properties, announcing continuous cooperation with the authorities in realization of public interest and expressing gratitude to the Yemeni people for their civilized treatment towards members of the Sudanese community.
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