Husband confesses to school principal’s murder in court

The husband of a school principal has confessed before a court to killing his wife and concocting the story about armed robbers killing her, Geo News reported Monday.

The husband, identified as Ali Hassan, confessed before Judicial Magistrate East, adding that his second wife Sahar and her brother Balaaj are not involved in the murder. Suspect Sahar had said that her husband had asked her for a pistol. She accepted that she provided him with the weapon without asking why he wants to use it.

On Sunday, police revealed that Ali Hassan had concocted the story about armed bandits shooting his wife, 41-year-old Ambreen Fatima, on December 10. According to the police, they became suspicious of Ali’s mugging story because there was a sign of blacking on the victim’s temple, which indicated that the bullet was fired from close range. A call between Ali and Sahar and later between Sahar and her brother, in which she relayed the murder’s details, led police to arrest Ali.

Ali worked as an administrator in the same school where Ambreen was the principal, while Sahar was employed as a teacher there. Sahar and Ambreen were also friends, said police, adding that Sahar and Ali had married secretly. On December 10, it was reported that Ambreen Fatima, principal of a private school, was shot dead by robbers and the incident was linked to rising street crime in the city.