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19 March 2024

Prisoner tricks guard with 'death rosary'

A guard at a Jordanian prison were tricked by an inmate to give him his rosary without apparently realising he wanted it to end his life. (Supplied)

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Guards at a Jordanian prison were tricked by an inmate to give him his rosary without apparently realising he wanted it to end his life. The trick did work and the man was later found hanging by the rosary’s strong threads.

The inmate at the prison in the northeastern Jordanian province of Mafraq, jailed in connection with financial offences, begged the guard to give him his rosary on the grounds he uses it for religious purposes.

Guards checking the prisoners at dawn found the inmate hanging by the rosary threads and forensic examination showed he died because of hanging.

“He used the rosary threads to tie them around his neck and hang himself…he died immediately,” a security source said, quoted by local newspapers.