Humaam

Commissioner of Police Abdullah Riyaz has said that the confessions by Hussain Humaam of H. Lobby in court today, whereby he said that he had been involved in a number of stabbings and that he has even killed people in the past, will be investigated.

In an interview, Riyaz told Sun Online tonight that a study will be done to ascertain if the crimes confessed to by Humaam took place, after which investigations will be conducted based on the Prosecutor General’s advice.

When asked how long the investigations are likely to take, Riyaz said that it is not easy to indicate a completion date for any investigation, but the police would be working on completing these investigations as soon as possible.

Speaking at his hearing at the Criminal Court today, Humaam said that he became active in assaults on the streets of Male’ during 2006.

Humaam is currently on trial for the brutal murder of former Ungoofaaru MP Dr. Afrasheem Ali.

Confessing some of the crimes he had committed, Humaam said that he had attacked a man on the road in Janavaree Magu in Male’, by hitting him on the head and injuring him badly, and that he had also stabbed and injured a man known as “Harbarey” while he was in Carnival area in Male’.

Humaam said that he once stabbed a foreign soldier in the stomach, a man who had come ashore to Male' from a ship. He had also stabbed a man in Dolphin Café inside the carnival area in Male’, he said.

He confessed to attacking a man who was walking along with a woman near Henveyru Irudhoshu café, and to numerous muggings that he had committed in the past.

He said that he now wants to confess to his crimes, repent and ask forgiveness.