MULTAN: A sweet shop owner in Layyah has confessed to fatally poisoning at least 30 people by lacing his goods with pesticide in Layyah’s village of Chak number 105 in an attempt to take revenge on his older brother, who used to torture him, police told AFP on Friday.
The confessions of the 18-yearr old culprit,Khalid Mehmood, have been penned down by the magistrate. He has confessed in a court in Punjab that he had poisoned the sweets after his elder brother Tariq, who owned the sweet shop with him, “insulted and abused” him in a business dispute. “I wanted to teach him a lesson,” police investigator Mohammad Afzal quoted him as saying, with the statement confirmed by another senior police official. “I was so angry that I mixed the pesticides bottle in the sweets being baked at that time.” Police also recovered the bottle of poison from the fields on Khalid’s identification.The poisoned batch of sweets was bought by a local man who gave them to family and friends celebrating the birth of his grandson.
