DUSHANBE, August 30, 2014, Asia-Plus – Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service reports that a jailed hairdresser from Kulob has been sentenced to life in prison for stabbing a warden to death with scissors.
Umed Teshayev”s lawyer told RFE/RL”s Tajik Service that his client”s 30-year sentence had been extended to a life sentence on August 27.
Teshayev”s lawyer said the court had extended his sentence to life in prison following a request from relatives of the victim.
We will recall that the jailed hairdresser Umed Teshayev had his sentence extended to a 30-year prison term for stabbing the prison warden Umar Qayumov to death. Teshayev was found guilty of murder and sentenced on April 8, 2014.
In February this year, the 65-year-old warden, Colonel Umar Qayumov, asked the prisoner to come to his office to cut his hair. Teshayev then used his scissors to stab Qayumov once in the head and then at least 16 times in his body. The official died before reaching hospital.
The 30-year-old prisoner had worked as a hairdresser before being sentenced last year to 17 ½ years in jail for stabbing the 50-year-old Abdurasoul Aliyev to death with straight razor in his hairdressing salon on August 31, 2013.
Habibullo Amirbekzoda, the head of the Supreme Court’s office, told Asia-Plus in an interview on August 1 that the Supreme Court has reversed the sentence against the jailed hairdresser. According to him, the Supreme Court considered the sentence for Umed Teshayev too mild and Teshayev’s case has been remitted for further inquiry.
