Prosecutors said Thursday they would seek the death penalty and life in prison respectively for a man and his nephew accused of dragging 34-year-old Fransisca Yofie behind a motorcycle by her hair for 500 meters, stabbing her with a machete and leaving her to bleed to death near her home in the West Java capital last year.
“We demand the death penalty for defendant Wawan, also known as Awing,” chief prosecutor Rinaldi Umar said at an indictment hearing at the Bandung District Court on Thursday, according to state-run Antara News Agency.
Prosecutors charged Wawan with violent robbery resulting in death under article 365 of the Criminal Code, which carries a maximum penalty of death.
Fransisca, a branch manager for automobile financing firm Verena Multi Finance, died near the boardinghouse where she lived on Jalan Cipedes in the Sukajadi subdistrict on Aug. 5, 2013, after allegedly being dragged by the suspects behind a motorcycle and fatally stabbed in what they claimed was a bag-snatching attempt gone awry.
The suspects were identified by police as Wawan, who allegedly stabbed Fransisca’s with a machete repeatedly, and his nephew Ade Ismayadi, who allegedly drove the motorcycle. Wawan told police he attacked the victim because she had refused to relinquish her bag.
Fransisca died of severe blood loss shortly after her arrival at a nearby hospital, after having been abandoned in a field for more than an hour.
RIP Francisca!
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