Witness: Hamza confessed to killing Shah Miya in L. Gan

A police officer who investigated the murder of Bangladeshi expatriate worker Baandh Shah Miya in L. Gan on June 9, 2015 testified in court on Monday that the defendant, Ali Hamza (H. Red Fish, L. Gan) confessed to killing the man.

The police officer testified that Hamza was arrested based on information collected after tracing Baandh Shah Miya’s phone.

He said that the trace run on Shah Miya’s phone had led then to another expatriate, who told them that the phone was sold to him.

Additional investigation led them to find out Hamza had been involved in Shah Miya’s mobile phone, testified the officer.

The officer testified that Hamza described how he murdered Shah Miya when he was arrested and taken for the remand hearing, and had also confessed to police during interrogation.

The officer said that Hamza had been read his rights before police conducted their investigation, and had not been coerced in any way.

The officer testified that Hamza confessed to getting high on Dunlop, and then climbing up the wall of the house Shah Miya was sleeping in and jumping in, along with the can of Dunlop he was using.

Hamza confessed to seeing Shah Miya asleep, put down the can of Dunlop and then hit the sleeping man in the face three times with a wooden stick, and then jumped of over the wall again and fled, throwing the wooden stick into an abandoned house, testified the officer.

Testimony of other officers who participated in the investigation was also taken during Monday’s hearing.

Two of the officers testified to seeing a blood-stained wooden stick near the house where Shah Miya was found murdered.

Another officer testified to seeing a can of Dunlop in the scene of the murder like Hamza said, while two other officers who were the first to arrive on the scene also provided their testimony.

Testimony of anonymous state witnesses will be taken during the hearing on the case.

Hamza stands accused of premeditated murder using a weapon – a three-foot-long wooden stick with which he hit Shah Miya – who was sleeping in the patio – in the face.