A Qatari court on Monday upheld a death sentence against a local man convicted of the murder of British school teacher Lauren Patterson. Doha's Court of Appeal confirmed the sentence against Badr Hashim Khamis Abdallah al-Jabar as Patterson's mother Alison, who had travelled from Britain for the hearing, watched on. Although the death penalty is still handed down as a punishment in Qatar, it has been 12 years since the last execution took place and they are usually replaced by long prison sentences.
The last person executed in Qatar was killed by firing squad. Al-Jabar's accomplice Mohamed Abdallah Hassan Abdul Aziz also had his sentence of three years for helping to burn the 24-year-old's body and disposing of evidence confirmed at the same short hearing on Monday.
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