The judiciary issued a verdict against the killers of an American citizen in Baghdad.

The Ministry stated in a statement that immediately after the killing of the American citizen, Stephen Troell, in the capital, Baghdad, last year, an intelligence team from the Ministry of the Interior began to follow up the course of the incident, and with an intensive intelligence technical effort for several days and in separate areas and places, the work team was able to the perpetrators and those associated with them were diagnosed, and the method was presented to the judiciary, and judicial approvals were obtained for their arrest.

He added that the arrest warrant was executed later, and during the investigation process with the perpetrators, and after confronting them with irrefutable evidence, they confessed to their crime, and an evidence detection was made that was in accordance with their statements, and in light of that, the case was referred to the competent court, where the Iraqi judiciary issued, today, Thursday, a ruling of life imprisonment against them, and they are an Iranian defendant and 4 other Iraqi defendants, after they were convicted of killing the American citizen.

He continued, as the intelligence team and the accompanying effort are searching and investigating 4 other suspects out of the group that was arrested and implicated in this crime, as they are now being pursued and followed up with the aim of arresting them to obtain their just punishment and the implementation of legal procedures against them.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency