Shirin Gul

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Shirin Gul
Nationality Afghan
Known for Convicted of a role in a serial murder ring

Shirin Gul is a citizen of Afghanistan who received a sentence of twenty years for her role in the killings of two dozen men.[1]

Azam Ahmed, reporting in The New York Times, wrote that he didn't know how much he could rely on what she told him during the interview she provided him, because she acknowledged mental health problems, and others at the prison described her as unreliable.[1]

Ahmed said that most of the information about her 2004 arrest, trial and conviction were no longer available, that the only public document was a Presidential decree from Afghan President Hamid Karzai, commuting her death sentence.[1]

Gul said she was orphaned at two years old and that her relatives married her to a communist leader, when she was just eleven years old.[1] She doesn't know her exact age, but Afghanistan's communist regime was ousted in 1991.

The man who lead the murder ring was a relative of her husband, named Rahmatullah.[1] She describes falling in love with him, and agreeing to help kill her husband. After her husbands murder other well-off Afghans who were lured to what they thought would be liaisons with her were murdered, and their vehicles sold.

Police authorities found over two dozen bodies buried in the courtyards of the Kabul and Jalalabad compounds where she and Rahmatullah lived.[1]

Ahmed said that Gul described Rahmatullah as "the most attractive man she ever met".[1] She claimed she didn't realize that Rahmatullah was tied to organized crime, and that he had murdered other men, before she formed her alliance with her. She also described him as a pedophile, of whom she lived in fear. She claimed she didn't play a willing role in the murders of any of the other men.

Gul, twelve years into her sentence, had born a daughter in the prison, who was seven years old at the time of her interview.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Azam Ahmed (2014-02-28). "Charming and Erratic, a Notorious Afghan Speaks". Jalalabad: New York Times. p. A4. Archived from the original on 2015-03-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20150301224407/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/world/charming-and-erratic-a-notorious-afghan-speaks.html?rref=world. "To hear Shirin Gul tell it, the murders were her lover’s idea, though she admits that she had consented to his killing her husband. She knew that her lover, Rahmatullah, poisoned his victims by slipping toxins into the tea and kebabs that she served them. And it is true that she frequently heard the sound of shovels in her courtyard, when graves were being dug."