A man who butchered the daughter of one of Saddam Hussein’s right-hand men while she was reportedly still alive has been jailed for life.
Victim Sally Ali Challab Al-Abbood’s father had been one of the Iraqi dictator’s trusted military aides until the regime was toppled in 2003.
Major Ali Challab Al-Abbood and his family later fled to Eskisehir in Turkey including his 20-year-old daughter Sally.
But Sally vanished two years ago (September 2021) after she confronted obsessed 37-year-old stalker Amjed Mohsin Mohammed.
Sally, a court heard, was determined to tell him to stop following her. But was never seen again after CCTV caught her going with him to his home.
Prosecutors told the trial that physiotherapist Mohammed’s extensive training in human anatomy had helped him dismember and then dispose of her corpse in rubbish bins.
In the grim judgement, the court suggested Sally could have been alive when she was cut into pieces. Local media reported on 27th December.
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The ruling said: “It is not possible to determine whether Amjed dismembered Sally while she was alive or after she died and distributed the body parts to rubbish containers.”
All police ever found of her were tiny traces of her DNA, local media reported.
Mohammed had been found guilty of her murder but appealed his life sentence.
Now it has been upheld by the 2nd Criminal Chamber of the Ankara Regional Court of Justice.
Mohammed will only be eligible for parole after serving 24 years in prison.
Femicide is a growing problem in Turkey, particularly after the country officially quit the Istanbul Convention in July 2021.
According to data from the ‘Monument Counter’, which is “a digital memorial for women killed by violence”. And is updated daily, 393 women were killed by men in 2022, while 386 femicides have taken place in Turkey so far this year.
