Man charged with premeditated murder of his daughter

AMMAN — A 50-year-old man was charged with the premeditated murder of his married daughter in Karak on Thursday, official sources said.

The father reportedly shot his 20-year-old daughter at her husband’s house at dawn on Thursday for reasons related to family honour, a senior official source said. 

“The father claimed family honour as his motive because his daughter had slept with her husband before they were married,” the source explained.

The victim’s 30-year-old brother, who was with his father, was charged with complicity in premeditated murder, the source added.

Pathologist Iwad Tarawneh, head of the Karak National Institute of Forensic Medicine, performed an autopsy on the victim and determined that she died of a single bullet wound to the chest, according to a second source, who said that Tarawneh had examined her a year ago after “she was caught with the man who became her husband and was found not to be a virgin.”

“The two were married by the governor and lived in a different area away from their family,” the second source explained.

On Wednesday, the source added, the father and his son “managed to locate the whereabouts of their daughter”.

“They knocked on the door and when she opened it the father shot her,” the source said, noting that the father and son left and were later arrested by police.

Both suspects were ordered detained at a correctional and rehabilitation centre pending further investigation.