lauren patterson

Yesterday marked the latest appeal hearing for the man accused of killing Patterson, a British teacher. During the tense session, the court watched a video re-enactment of the circumstances around Patterson's death in 2013.

Mohamed Abdallah Hassan Abdul Aziz was found guilty of helping to burn Patterson’s body and damage evidence and sentenced to three years in prison.

The retrial was ordered by Qatar’s Court of Cassation in early February after Al-Jabar’s lawyer argued that the Court of Appeal’s March 2015 decision to uphold his conviction and death penalty sentence was “erroneous and not based on a sound legal foundation.”

Last month, Qatar’s highest court threw out a guilty verdict and death penalty sentence for a man convicted of killing Lauren Patterson. His retrial starts on March 27 and Patterson's mother is hoping to get to Qatar to attend.