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Prosecutors demand life sentence for Ferdy in Yosua murder trial
The prosecution has demanded the court hand down a life sentence to Ferdy Sambo for the premeditated murder of Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat.
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Ferdy Sambo, a former National Police internal affairs chief who has been dishonorably discharged, appears on Oct. 17, 2022 at his trial for the premeditated murder of Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat at the South Jakarta District Court. (Reuters/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana)
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rosecutors have demanded that the court trying Ferdy Sambo for the premeditated murder of subordinate Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat sentence the victim’s commanding officer to life in prison as the principal perpetrator and for tampering with evidence in orchestrating a cover-up.
The case against Ferdy is considered the biggest scandal to embroil the institution to date and has gripped the public for months.
Prosecutors at the South Jakarta District Court said on Tuesday that they had found enough evidence to prove that the killing of Yosua was premeditated murder and that Ferdy had violated Article 340 of the Criminal Code.
“[We] demand that the judges declare the defendant guilty, beyond reasonable doubt, of committing premeditated murder,” said one of the prosecutors during the trial hearing.
The prosecutors had also found proof that Ferdy had tampered with evidence by damaging CCTV cameras at his official residence in South Jakarta, the scene of the crime, and destroying the footage.
They demanded that “the defendant be sentenced to life in prison” for these two counts.
The initial narrative surrounding the incident suggested that Yosua was killed in July 2022 in a shoot-out with Second Agent (Bharada) Richard Eliezer, another aide-de-camp assigned to Ferdy, the National Police’s former internal affairs chief and two-star general who was dishonorably discharged in August 2022.
