Pakistani paedophile who raped, killed minors hanged

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A serial killer of minor girls was executed at a jail in Lahore on Wednesday after he was convicted and sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court for raping and murdering a seven-year-old girl, in an incident that sparked outrage and violent protests in Pakistan early this year.

Imran Ali, 24, who was convicted for the rape and murder of the minor girl in Kasur city, was hanged at 5.30am in the presence of the victim's father Amin Ansari and magistrate Adil Sarwar in Kot Lakhpat Central Jail. A resident of Kasur, Imran was accused of being involved in at least nine incidents of rape-cum-murder of minors.

The court has given its verdict in five cases. Imran had told police that he committed the heinous crime after he got addicted to sex by watching child pornography. In January, police arrested Imran through a DNA match two weeks after he raped and killed the minor girl and threw her body into a garbage dump.

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