Two charged with complicity in murder over body found in Ajloun well

AMMAN — The Criminal Court prosecutor on Thursday charged a man and a woman with complicity in murder in connection with the killing of a woman whose body was found dumped in a well on a farm in Ajloun last week, judicial sources said.

The 28-year-old male suspect, in the presence of the victim’s sister, the second suspect, reportedly tied the victim with a chain, beat her until she was dead and then threw her body into a well in Ajloun, 70km northwest of Amman, to conceal the murder.

On Thursday, both suspects confessed to the murder and re-enacted it in front of Criminal Court Prosecutor Afif Khawaldeh, a senior judicial source told The Jordan Times.

In their initial testimonies to police and Khawaldeh, the judicial source added, the couple said they were “involved in a relationship and that the 20-year-old victim, who was divorced, was standing in their way since she was living with her sister”.

The suspects also claimed that the “victim was in constant trouble with the law for drug-related offences and that was another reason why they wanted to get rid of her”, according to the source.

The male suspect is a driver, while the female suspect is a mother of a nine-year-old girl, a second source told The Jordan Times.

The victim was found on August 5 by passers-by, who smelled something near the 10-metre well in Ajloun.

Coroners detected ligature marks on the victim’s hands and feet, concluding that it was a homicide. A post-mortem examination conducted later confirmed their theory.