On Tuesday, October 21, jury selection began in Spain in the trial of a Pakistani man charged with murdering three siblings in their 70s over debts reportedly linked to an online romance scam.
Dilawar Hussain admitted to killing two sisters and their disabled brother in Morata de Tajuña, near Madrid, in December 2023. One month later he was being held in custody after turning himself in to the authorities.
Hussain, who rented a room in the siblings’ house, reportedly lent the siblings at least €50,000 which they never repaid—prompting him to attack one of the sisters with a hammer in February 2023.
He received a two–year jail sentence for this attack but it was suspended since it was his first offence, as is customary under Spanish law.
Hussain now faces a separate trial for allegedly murdering his 39-year-old Bulgarian cellmate in February 2024 while in a Madrid prison awaiting trial for the murder of the siblings.
