MARDAN: The suspect in the rape and murder case of four-year-old Asma in Mardan, Muhammad Nabi, has confessed to his crime before the court on Monday.
On Wednesday, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Police had claimed to have arrested the main suspect, 15-year-old Muhammad Nabi who was a close relative of the minor girl.
The accused in his confessional statement stated that he had taken Asma to a sugarcane field and tried to sexually abuse her. However, after the child cried, he strangled her to death.
Asma had gone missing on January 14 in Mardan’s Gujar Garhi area, and her dead body was found from sugarcane fields near her home on January 15. Forensic testing confirmed that the child was subjected to sexual abuse before being killed.
