Goenadi may get 15 years for beheading doctor

Goenadi may get 15 years for beheading doctor

JAKARTA (JP): The prosecutor in the case of the decapitated
doctor wants the North Jakarta District Court to reject the
defense statement and sentence the accused to 15 years in prison.

Prosecutor Omsin Subarkah said in a trial session over the
weekend that Alamsyah Hanafiah, the lawyer of accused killer
Goenadi Tjahyo Wargo, was mistaken when he charged that the
prosecution has failed to present the court proof of the
defendant's guilt.

Goenadi, who is said to have supernatural powers, allegedly
beheaded Dr. Riyama Yawoga in her bedroom on Jan. 14 at the
request of the doctor's clandestine lover, Ridwan Suryadanu. The
lover allegedly promised to pay the accused Rp 120 million if he
could accomplish the murder.

Prosecutor Omsin earlier asked that the same court sentence
Ridwan, who is being tried in separate sessions, to 10 years
imprisonment and Goenadi to 15 years.

Eighteen witnesses, including several police officers, have
testified in Goenadi's trial.

"It was he (Goenadi) who approved the witnesses' testimonies
and it was also the defendant who admitted that he had received
Rp 120 million from Ridwan after committing the murder,"
prosecutor Omsin said.

Bad preparation

The prosecutor pointed out that Ridwan gave the Rp 120 million
money to Goenadi without properly documenting the transferal of
funds and without requiring collateral.

Goenadi received money from Ridwan twice. He first received Rp
20 million on Dec. 21 last year, and then got Rp 100 million on
Jan. 15, the day after Doctor Riyama was found dead at her home.

"The sequence of events between the murder of the victim and
the handover of the bulk of the money justifies the assumption
that the defendant did not borrow the money from Ridwan as
alleged, but proves that he took the money in payment for a
service," the prosecutor charged.

Responding to Goenadi's retraction of all of his confessions
in previous court sessions, Omsin said that the defendant's
maneuver lacked legal grounds because the facts presented by
police indicate the opposite.

"Has the defendant's lawyer forgotten that police found the
defendant's finger prints at the scene of the crime, and that his
slippers were stained with the victim's blood?" Prosecutor Omsin
asked.

The prosecutor reminded the court that during one of the trial
sessions, the defendant even corrected officer Mulyanto's
testimony, saying that he did not slash at Riyama's neck, but
pulled the knife across her throat, almost severing the head from
the body.

In his closing statement prosecutor Omsin said that he refused
to back down from his previous demand that the court sentence
Goenadi to 15 years imprisonment.

Presiding Judge Surti Hari Pramono adjourned the trial session
until Aug. 31, when the defendant's lawyer is scheduled to reply
to the prosecutor's statements. (03)