Extreme Evil - Taking Crime to the Next Level (True Crime) by Phil Clarke, Kate Briggs, Tom Briggs Page A
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put his evil plan of retribution into effect. Acquiring the necessary supplies to cut up and eliminate the corpses, he paid his accomplices to lure the street children to his apartment. Promises of a decent meal and a place to sleep was enough to bring a steady stream of the homeless and the hungry to his lair.
Javed Iqbal and three accomplices appeared in court in January 2000 for their pre-trial indictment. Once again he made clear his guilt, confessing to all one-hundred murders, proclaiming he was ‘the nation’s culprit’ and deserved to be punished. However, the following month, Iqbal changed his tune, pleading not guilty to all charges.
Declaring it a mere publicity stunt, Iqbal claimed none of the children had been slain; he had just wanted to bring the plight of the runaway and orphaned children of Lahore to the public’s attention. Unfazed by such an appalling about-face, on 17 February 2000 the court formally indicted all four Pakistanis on charges of kidnap, sodomy and murder.
A N E YE F OR A N E YE
The next day, the trial of Javed Iqbal began in earnest. Parents of the missing children in attendance listened to his professions of innocence. His statements to the police had been made under duress, he said. Yet with a glut of physical evidence, ranging from the detailed diary to the acid-filled vats containing human carcasses, and over one-hundred witnesses testifying against him, Iqbal was eventually found guilty of every single murder.
On 16 March, Judge Allah Baksh Ranjha handed down the sentences. Accomplices Muhammad Sabir and a thirteen-year-old named Nadeem were given 63 and 253 years in jail respectively. The third accessory Shahzad Sajid was not so lucky. He, along with Javed Iqbal, received the death penalty.
Focusing on the serial killer with one-hundred souls to his name, the Judge declared he would swing by the neck before the parents whose children he murdered. He then wished for his corpse to suffer the same fate as his victims; to be cut up into one-hundred pieces and dissolved in acid. The press erroneously reported this call for an equal repayment for the crimes as his actual sentence, which had Islamic ideologists up in arms. A week later, amid the religious furore, Iqbal appealed his verdict.
C ONSPIRACY?
After seven months incarceration within Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail, the next chapter in the saga began. On the morning of 25 October 2001, Javed Iqbal was found dead in his cell. Conflicting reports as to cause of death varied from poisoning to hanging; either way police called it suicide. Faisal Najib Chaudhry, Iqbal’s lawyer, believed otherwise. The timing of the death was a little suspicious. The apparent suicide had come just four days after the High Court had agreed to hear his appeal against the death penalty. An autopsy soon discovered he had been brutally beaten prior to his death leading many, including Chaudhry, to believe Javed Iqbal was murdered.
Following his death, it came to light that twenty-six of the supposed century of victims were in fact alive and well and living in Lahore. At the time of writing, the case has yet to be re-opened.
Joachim Kroll
Prowling the Ruhr region of North-West Germany for over twenty years, the Duisburg man-eater developed a taste for human flesh, luring little girls into secluded areas before carving out a take-away meal from their strangled corpses.
S EXUAL S LAUGHTER
Joachim Georg Kroll was born amidst a rising evil. The construction of Dachau, the Reichstag fire and the birth of the Gestapo, all part of the Nazi’s quest for absolute power in Germany, were taking place when this infamous cannibal killer entered the world on 17 April 1933. Raised by a large mining family in Hindenburg, Upper Silesia, little Jocky was a fragile child. Along with his constitution his bladder was also weak, often wetting the bed throughout his youth.
Very little else is known about his upbringing. Far from a bright
Javed Iqbal and three accomplices appeared in court in January 2000 for their pre-trial indictment. Once again he made clear his guilt, confessing to all one-hundred murders, proclaiming he was ‘the nation’s culprit’ and deserved to be punished. However, the following month, Iqbal changed his tune, pleading not guilty to all charges.
Declaring it a mere publicity stunt, Iqbal claimed none of the children had been slain; he had just wanted to bring the plight of the runaway and orphaned children of Lahore to the public’s attention. Unfazed by such an appalling about-face, on 17 February 2000 the court formally indicted all four Pakistanis on charges of kidnap, sodomy and murder.
A N E YE F OR A N E YE
The next day, the trial of Javed Iqbal began in earnest. Parents of the missing children in attendance listened to his professions of innocence. His statements to the police had been made under duress, he said. Yet with a glut of physical evidence, ranging from the detailed diary to the acid-filled vats containing human carcasses, and over one-hundred witnesses testifying against him, Iqbal was eventually found guilty of every single murder.
On 16 March, Judge Allah Baksh Ranjha handed down the sentences. Accomplices Muhammad Sabir and a thirteen-year-old named Nadeem were given 63 and 253 years in jail respectively. The third accessory Shahzad Sajid was not so lucky. He, along with Javed Iqbal, received the death penalty.
Focusing on the serial killer with one-hundred souls to his name, the Judge declared he would swing by the neck before the parents whose children he murdered. He then wished for his corpse to suffer the same fate as his victims; to be cut up into one-hundred pieces and dissolved in acid. The press erroneously reported this call for an equal repayment for the crimes as his actual sentence, which had Islamic ideologists up in arms. A week later, amid the religious furore, Iqbal appealed his verdict.
C ONSPIRACY?
After seven months incarceration within Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail, the next chapter in the saga began. On the morning of 25 October 2001, Javed Iqbal was found dead in his cell. Conflicting reports as to cause of death varied from poisoning to hanging; either way police called it suicide. Faisal Najib Chaudhry, Iqbal’s lawyer, believed otherwise. The timing of the death was a little suspicious. The apparent suicide had come just four days after the High Court had agreed to hear his appeal against the death penalty. An autopsy soon discovered he had been brutally beaten prior to his death leading many, including Chaudhry, to believe Javed Iqbal was murdered.
Following his death, it came to light that twenty-six of the supposed century of victims were in fact alive and well and living in Lahore. At the time of writing, the case has yet to be re-opened.
Joachim Kroll
Prowling the Ruhr region of North-West Germany for over twenty years, the Duisburg man-eater developed a taste for human flesh, luring little girls into secluded areas before carving out a take-away meal from their strangled corpses.
S EXUAL S LAUGHTER
Joachim Georg Kroll was born amidst a rising evil. The construction of Dachau, the Reichstag fire and the birth of the Gestapo, all part of the Nazi’s quest for absolute power in Germany, were taking place when this infamous cannibal killer entered the world on 17 April 1933. Raised by a large mining family in Hindenburg, Upper Silesia, little Jocky was a fragile child. Along with his constitution his bladder was also weak, often wetting the bed throughout his youth.
Very little else is known about his upbringing. Far from a bright
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