Mozambique | Amurare murder: Defendants sentenced to 20 and 23 years in prison

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Mozambique | Amurare murder: Defendants sentenced to 20 and 23 years in prison

3:36 CAT | 02 Nov 2022

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The Judicial Court of Nampula Province has sentenced the defendants in the Amurane murder case to 20 and 23 years in prison. The judge in the case found that the two committed the crime of qualified murder.

More than five years after the murder of Nampula Mayor Mahamudo Amurane, the Judicial Court of Nampula Province has sentenced the two defendants to prison terms of 20 and 23 years.

Saide Ali Abdulremane was sentenced to 20 years and Zainal Abdul Satar to 23 years.

Judge Cristina Salia, from the sixth criminal section, concluded from the evidence presented by the public prosecutor that the two had committed the crime of aggravated homicide.

Mahamudo Amurane, president of the Municipal Council of Nampula, was shot dead on October 4, 2017, outside his personal residence on the outskirts of the city.

At the time, Amurane was leaving a private meeting with Saíde Ali Abdulremane, also a city councilor, and Zainal Abdul Satar, a businessman in the civil construction sector, both of whom had a friendly relationship with the deceased.

Amurane was shot dead, in a plan that the public prosecutor says was orchestrated and executed by the two.

This is a decisive part of a process that has seen many twists and turns. On January 7, 2019, the Public Prosecutor’s Office filed the indictment. On August 8, 2019, the Judicial Court of Nampula Province dismissed the defendants and ordered the production of better evidence.

Dissatisfied, the Public Prosecutor’s Office filed an appeal in September, 2019, and the Nampula Superior Court of Appeal revoked the judge’s order.

On March 16, 2022, the trial began, ending with this conviction.

Source: O País