Supreme Court orders retrial in murder conviction with death sentence

Supreme Court has today ordered the lower courts to grant a retrial to Mohamed Samah, who had been served the death penalty for conviction of murder of a police officer in Kaafu atoll Kaashidhoo twelve years ago.

Samah was convicted on murder and sentenced to death by the Criminal Court for the attacking and murdering Police Officer Adam Haleem with a knife while he was going to duty in 2012. The High Court later upheld this verdict.