The accused's lawyer for killing his wife in Prizren proposes that his client become psychiatric examination

Such a proposal by lawyer Rekathat has been made at the second review session, held Friday at the Foundation Court in Prizren.

Initially, lawyer Rekathat stated he has filed a written request to drop the indictment and reject evidence, arguing that the indictment is unclear.

He claimed that his client, at the first session, admitted that he was deprived of life of the victim, but said he did not admit to doing so on purpose.

That the work has not been carried out deliberately or preconceptions, the accused Velija said, again declaring himself innocent of the first point of the indictment, which charges him with criminal murder.

Lawyer Rekathat proposed that psychiatric examination be conducted for the accused, despite the fact that they do not possess any document supporting their proposal, as well as the fact that the defendant himself in the initial review has declared that he has never been mentally ill or in any other treatment, reports the “Justice Vowtim”.

In this regard, prosecutor Ervehe Gashi initially stated that she is generally opposed to the defence claims regarding their request to contest the evidence and drop the indictment after saying that the evidence under which the indictment is based, as well as the actual description, the murder of a family member, turns out that the accused has committed it on purpose.

While regarding the proposal for psychiatric examination, the prosecutor said there is no evidence showing any mental disorder to the accused.

According to the prosecutor, if we refer to material evidence, it turns out that the accused has had time to calm himself, since he said he walked about a mile until he met the victim.

In this regard, prosecutor Gashi asked the court not to accept this defence proposal.

The prosecutor's statement also supported the representative of the damaged party, lawyer Granit Vokshi, demanding that the request for the drop of the indictment be denied.

As for the proposal for psychiatric examination, lawyer Vokshi said the same proposal is completely unsupported, because the legal standard required to order psychiatric examination is the existence of suspicion that the defendant has acted in a state of mental inability.

He therefore stated that the existence of doubt must be based on evidence, while in the request for conflict of evidence it is said that the defendant has never had a mental disorder in his life, so he asked the court to reject such a proposal.

The prosecutor's word and that of Vokshi's lawyer also supported the damaged Diellza Hoti, who is once the victim's daughter, reports the “Justice Vox1> bet.

Following these statements, the head of the court, Judge Raima Elezi refused the defendant's proposal of protection for psychiatric examination.

Otherwise, according to Prizren's Constitutional Prosecutor's Act, compiled on 28 February 2020, Bajram Velija is charged with the August 6th 2019, in the district of “New Life” in Prizren, deliberately deprived his family-wife, Amenda Aliu-Velija.

According to the indictment, after a preliminary disagreement with the victim, the moment the victim was leaving their home, the defendant is equipped with a pistol and fired 15 times toward his wife, striking him 14 times in different parts of the body. After carrying out this action, the defendant covers his wife in a dress and awaits the arrival of the police.

Bajram Velija is accused of committing the criminal act of serious murder.

According to the second point of the indictment, it is said that by August 6, 2020, the defendant holds in ownership and control of the type pistol “Pytro Beretta Gardone”, several caricators and bullets, contrary to the applicable Law regarding weapons, with which the prosecutor suspect the criminal act of the serious murder has been committed.

With these actions, the accused has, according to the indictment, committed the criminal work of ownership, control, or unauthorized possession of weapons.

Otherwise, defendant Velija has been in custody since 6 August last year.