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| Man confesses in court to killing girlfriend’s husband with ax |
| 2019-11-20 |
| [NYPOST] A Michigan man confessed in court to butchering his girlfriend’s husband with an ax ‐ but insisted he at first only meant to frighten his romantic rival with the weapon, according to reports. Jacob Ficher, of Lansing, testified Monday that Ammar al-Yasari "needed to be scared" for physically, emotionally and sexually abusing his wife, Bdour al-Yasari, who had been Ficher’s lover, the Lansing State Journal reports. "I didn’t plan on hurting him, but I just .... All I could hear was my heartbeat, and I just kept swinging," Ficher recalled of the 24 times he hit al-Yasari on the head, face and neck in his Holt home in February. "A discussion wasn’t going to push him away from the actions and the things he was doing," Ficher said on the witness stand, alleging that al-Yasari was a rapist and an abuser. Ficher and Bdour al-Yasari are facing charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the 35-year-old man’s death. Ficher said Bdour al-Yasari thought he was just going to talk with her husband that day. Testifying as the defense’s only witness, Ficher said Bdour turned off her home security system to allow him to confront her husband by surprise while she was at work, WILX reports. "I wanted him to leave," Ficher said. "Whether he ran to police or a different county, I just wanted him to be gone." Ficher, a US Army veteran, testified that he covered his face with a mask and used gloves from his days as an infantryman during the confrontation, which went awry when al-Yasari spotted him and started attacking him. "I fired off two strikes with my right hand, which was holding the ax," Ficher said. "All I could hear was my heartbeat and I just kept swinging and kept swinging and kept swinging." Seventeen of the 24 blows by the ax would have been deadly "almost immediately," a coroner testified during an earlier hearing, according to the Lansing State Journal. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Sad story. Should've gone a different way about it. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-11-20 00:39 |