Grand Jury in North confirms violence is cause of death of Rula Yaacoub

In its edition of today, Al Akbar daily reported that after two and a half-year delayed justice in the case of the killing of Roula Yaacoub, a new court decision issued last week has confirmed that the cause of death was continuous and excessive violence by the defendant against his wife at the time of death and before. The newspaper pointed out that the accusatory decision then had overlooked all the evidence that indict the husband Karam Bazi in the murder and therefore prevented his trial. The new 21-page verdict has justified the accusation of the husband by 3 circumstantial evidences which are: first, the disappearance of the culprit with the start of the investigation; second, testimonials by the lawyer Bushra Khoury, Roula Yaacoub's who maintained that the husband showed up one hour after the death accompanied by his brother who was heard telling the criminal every husband quarrels with his wife and beats her; third, the information and enquiries collected by Halba police station and the preliminary investigations that sustained the perpetrator has violently beaten his wife on the head. What characterizes the new decision is that it detailed and separated the contents of the medical reports that have been disregarded by the earlier accusatory verdict. "In order to scrutinize the causative relationship between the acts of violence and cruelty committed by the defendant and the autoptic results manifested by death, this necessitates a return to the medical reports,” as came in the above decision. (Al Akhbar, May 18, 2016)