Cause of death Suicide Name Javed Iqbal Country Pakistan | Span of killings unknown–unknown Parents Mohammad Ali Mughal Victims 100 Role Serial Killer | |
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Born 8 October 1956 Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan Died October 8, 2001, Lahore, Pakistan Education Islamia High School, Islamia College University Convictions Child sexual abuse, Murder | ||
Date apprehended December 30, 1999 Criminal penalty Capital punishment | ||
Javed Iqbal Mughal (8 October 1956 – 8 October 2001), was a Pakistani serial killer who was found guilty of the sexual abuse and murder of 100 boys.
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- Pakistani serial killer javed iqbal kill more then 100 childerns
- Early life
- Murders arrest and trial
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Pakistani serial killer javed iqbal kill more then 100 childerns
Early life
Iqbal was the sixth child of his businessman father. He attended Government Islamia College, Railway Road Lahore as an intermediate student. In 1978, while still a student, he started a steel recasting business. Iqbal lived, along with boys, in a villa in Shadbagh which his father had purchased.
Murders, arrest, and trial
In December 1999, Iqbal sent a letter to police and a Lahore newspapers chief news editor Khawar Naeem Hashmi confessing to the murders of 100 boys, all aged between 6 and 16. In the letter, he claimed to have strangled and dismembered the victims - mostly runaways and orphans living on the streets of Lahore - and disposed of their bodies using vats of hydrochloric acid. He then dumped the remains in a local river. In his house, police and reporters found bloodstains on the walls and floor with the chain on which Iqbal claimed to have strangled his victims, photographs of many of his victims in plastic bags. These items were neatly labeled with handwritten pamphlets. Two vats of acid with partially dissolved human remains were also left in the open for police to find, with a note claiming "the bodies in the house have deliberately not been disposed of so that authorities will find them."
In his letter, Iqbal revealed his intention to commit suicide by drowning in the Ravi River after his crimes. However, after attempts to recover him from the river with nets proved futile, the police initiated what was then Pakistan's most extensive manhunt. Four teenage boys, who had lived with Iqbal in his three-bedroom apartment, were apprehended in Sohawa. Shortly after their arrest, one of the teenagers died while in police custody. A post-mortem examination indicated that physical force had been applied to him, with allegations suggesting he had jumped from a window.
It was a month before Iqbal turned himself in at the offices of the Urdu-language newspaper Daily Jang on 30 December 1999. He was subsequently arrested. He stated that he had surrendered to the newspaper because he feared for his life and was concerned that the police would kill him.
Iqbal was sentenced to death by hanging, the judge passed sentence saying "You will be strangled to death in front of the parents whose children you killed, Your body will then be cut into 100 pieces and put in acid, the same way you killed the children."
Iqbal was found dead in his cell before the execution could be carried out.