News 24 reported that the Criminal Court in Jeddah will issue, next Wednesday, its final verdict in the case of Wafaa Al-Ghamdi, known in the media as “the treacherous Jeddah teacher”, who was killed by her husband, in a crime that aroused the interest of Saudi public opinion, last September.
During the session that was held on Sunday, and was attended by the representative and lawyer of the dead woman’s family, in addition to the perpetrator and his client in the case, the judge demanded the presence of Al-Ghamdi’s father during the next session, Wednesday, which is scheduled to witness the pronouncement of the verdict against the perpetrator.
The accused “husband” had confessed to killing his wife after she filed a complaint with the police station, after disagreements between them.
This crime sparked controversy on social networking sites in Saudi Arabia, and the name of Al-Ghamdi topped the search engines on Twitter, and the pioneers of communication sites demanded retribution from her husband.
