A stalker who attempted to kidnap a woman to make her marry him has murdered her in front of her daughter and niece.
She refused to go with the man, but now he has been sentenced to death by hanging.
The woman who died is 32-year-old Farah Hamza, and she was killed in Sabah Al-Salem in Kuwait in April 2021 by an unnamed man who was a member of the Kuwaiti military.
According to the court, he wanted to marry the woman, however she rejected his approaches.
He carried on making advances, and even put a tracking device on her car so he could follow what she did.
The man used the same tracking device to identify her car and tried to kidnap the woman, who was already married, as part of his plan to force her to marry him.
Yet when she refused to go with him, he stabbed her to death in front of his two children.
They were reportedly her niece and her own children, and then fled.
He was jailed for life but the latest ruling by the court of cassation, overseen by judge Abdullah Al-Jassem, said that this was too lenient.
The judge sentenced him to death, overturning the life imprisonment ruling that had been given on the grounds that the premeditated aspect of the killing could not be proven.
Both the public prosecutor and the defendant had appealed, with the former demanding the death penalty and the latter demanding that the sentence be reduced further.
The court heard that the already-married woman had repeatedly complained about the stalker but he refused to take no for an answer.
Her lifeless body was then left outside a hospital, but she did not survive the attack, which happened during the holy month of Ramadan.
News of Farah's death prompted public outrage, with over 200 people rallying to mourn the victim and demand tougher penalties for acts of violence committed against women.
