A Kuwaiti court has sentenced in absentia a Lebanese man and his Syrian wife to death by hanging over the murder of a Filipina maid, a judicial source says.
The court issues the sentence in the first hearing in the case of Joanna Demafelis, the 29-year-old maid whose body was found in a freezer in Kuwait earlier this year.
Filipina workers returning home from Kuwait arrive at Manila International Airport on February 18, 2018. (AFP/ NOEL CELIS)
The sentencing can still be appealed if the couple returns to Kuwait, the source tells AFP on condition of anonymity.
The Lebanese-Syrian couple was arrested in February in the Syrian capital Damascus following an Interpol manhunt.
Syrian authorities handed the husband, Nader Essam Assaf, over to Lebanese authorities, while his Syrian wife remained in custody in Damascus.
— AFP
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