KUWAIT CITY, Sept 22: The Criminal Court, headed by Counselor Abdullah Al-Othman, has sentenced a military man working for the Ministry of Interior to capital punishment after finding him guilty of suffocating to death a young man (bedoun) in the desert in Julaia and ordered the referral of the civil case to the competent court, reports Al-Rai daily.

The daily added, this is the first murder recorded in 2022, and summed up that the suspect was released from the Central Prison weeks before he committed the murder. He was reportedly sentenced to 15 years in prison and was released on pardon after serving 10 years. The man was caught after the operations room of the Ministry of Interior received information about the dead body in early hours of the morning following which security personnel rushed to the spot and found the corpse of the victim born in 1987. There were clear traces of suffocation and blood. After the suspect was arrested, he confessed to committing the crime.