An Iraqi court sentenced three boys to 10 years in prison after they were convicted of murdering their father with the help of their mother and severing his head.
The boys, whose ages were not specified, confessed to stabbing their father while asleep and severing his head before dumping it in a sewage pit in the southern Iraqi Dhi Qar governorate, according to Al Nassiriya news network.
It said the court had not yet sentenced the mother but quoted court sources as saying she may be executed.
“it is the first crime of its kind and the most heinous murder to be committed in Dhi Qar,” the network said.