BU student gets death sentence for killing girlfriend

A Barisal court yesterday sentenced a student of Barisal University to death for murdering his girlfriend on September 5 in 2013.

District and Sessions Judge of Barisal Md Anwarul Huq passed the verdict in the presence of the convict, Russell Mia alias Russell Matubbar, a student of management.

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The court also fined Russell Tk 10,000 and permitted the defence to submit an appeal against the verdict within seven working days, said advocate Giasuddin Kabul, district public prosecutor.

According to the verdict, Russell Mia hacked to death his girlfriend Saoda Aktar Mallik, an accounting student of the university, when she tried to break up with him.       

Shahida Begum, mother of the victim, filed a case against Russell the next day.

Russell was arrested on September 12, 2013 and two days later he confessed to killing her, before the court of the additional chief judicial magistrate of Barisal.