The State Prosecutor’s Office announces that it has filed an appeal against the Lod District Court’s decision to release a teenager charged with killing a Palestinian woman to house arrest.
During the hearing yesterday, in which the court ordered the far-right Israeli suspect’s conditional release, the defense presented a legal opinion in which the chief pathologist of the National Center of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir Hen Kugel cast doubt on the state’s version of the events that led to Aisha Rabi’s death in October.
He argued that the stone the suspect is charged with having hurled at Rabi’s car may not have been what killed her, as forensics indicated that her injuries were too severe to have been the result of a single blow to the head from a rock. However, only two of the other seven pathologists who examined the forensics at Abu Kabir reached the same conclusion as Kugel.
In announcing the appeal, the prosecution refers to the defense’s legal opinion as “marginal” and argues that the court’s decision to release the suspect to house arrest was a “mistake” given the “extreme danger” that he poses.
— Jacob Magid
A suspect in the murder of Aisha Rabi (L) is embraced by his father outside the Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court after being released to house arrest on January 10, 2019. (Flash90)
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