The Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) has filed murder charges against three people arrested in the killing of an elderly man from AA. Maalhos, who died in July following a brutal attack as he slept in his home.
Abdul Rahman Adam, 65, Orchidmaage in AA. Maalhos, was rushed to the local health center at around 01:50 am on July 13 after he was found bleeding in his bedroom. According to the police, he was inflicted “serious injuries” while he was sleeping in his home, and died a couple of hours later at the local health center.
An autopsy confirmed he died from injuries to his head.
A month later, the police arrested three young men, all of them native of Maalhos, on suspicion of involvement in his murder.
They are:
Ahmed Ashid, 28, Fiya, AA. Maalhos
Mohamed Wisam, 23, Lillyfehi, AA. Maalhos
Ahmed Faris, 28, Finivaage, AA. Maalhos
The PGO has issued a statement announcing that they filed murder charges against all three suspects with the Criminal Court on Tuesday.
Ashid was charged with murder with intent using a dangerous weapon under Article 5 of the Prohibition of Intimidation and Possession of Dangerous Weapons and Sharp Objects Act, while Wisam and Faris were charged as accomplices under the same Act.
The August arrest of the trio in the murder has sent shockwaves across Maalhos, including from the victim’s family themselves.
A source from Abdul Rahman’s family told Sun that the three suspects had no known grievance against Abdul Rahman, but were in fact friendly towards him and the rest of the family.
Another source told Sun that all three suspects hold respectable government jobs; Wisam worked in his home island as a youth associate – a presidential political appointee role, while Faris worked at the State Electric Company (STELCO) branch in Maalhos, and Ashid at the Road Development Corporation (RDC) headquarters in Male’.
While Wisam and Faris were arrested from Maalhos, Ashid was arrested from Male’, where he resided.
However, all three had reportedly been in Maalhos at the time of the murder.
“They always hang out together. But there’s no history of them committing any crime,” said a local.
Abdul Rahman Adam, 65, Orchidmaage, AA. Maalhos.
Abdul Rahman was labelled in Maalhos as a “black magician”.
A local source who spoke to Sun confirmed the rumor is widespread in Maalhos, but stressed that he himself only heard the rumor and does not know this for a fact.
These allegations are also denied by Abdul Rahman’s family.
Abdul Rahman and his wife Nazima Ibrahim, a council assistant at the Maalhos Council, had been living alone at the time of the murder. The couple have three children, two of whom reside in other islands. Meanwhile the third, an ambulance driver for the Maalhos Health Center, had been away in Male’ at the time of the murder.
Abdul Rahman was a fisherman, and was often away from home working on fishing boats from other islands.
His son, Ahmed Nimal told Sun that that his parents had slept in separate rooms on Saturday night. His mother woke up from her sleep to the sound of someone running out of the house.
She looked out of her bedroom to find the main door to the house ajar.
“She went into my father’s room and found so much blood,” said a distraught Nimal.
Nimal told Sun that the house has two doors, one of which is usually left unlocked.
Nimal said that he wouldnt think of anyone who could have committed such a horrific act, neither could he think of anyone who harbored resentment or any ill will towards his father.