The defendant has no criminal record, who was about 29 years old at the time of his interrogations by the police. In his arguments in court, the defendant claimed that he was afraid of Muhammad, since Muhammad had already murdered another person, and in addition, his family had already lost a family member a short time earlier due to violence against him, and he was afraid of losing another family member who would be harmed as a result of revenge. There is also no evidence against the defendant that he knew the deceased or that he had any strong obligation or interest in assisting Muhammad in the murder of the deceased. In these circumstances, it seems that it will not be possible to completely rule out the claim that the condition of defendant 2, which he claims was deceived by Mohammed, forced him to lie during his interrogations with the police.
Defendant 2's interrogation with the police on July 29, 2019 - (P/12B) - As may be recalled, defendant 2's version in response to the indictment and in court was that all he knew about Muhammad's intention revolved around the "drug deal", and for this purpose he also traveled to the south on the day of the murder without knowing about Muhammad's intention to murder the deceased.
As stated, in quite a part of his interrogations with the police on 15 July 2019 (Exhibit 9), 16 July 2019, (Exhibit 10) and 21 July 2019 (Exhibit 11), Defendant 2 remained silent and in another part gave a false version as if he intended to go to the Dead Sea.
At the same time, an examination of Defendant 2's statements to his interrogators in his fourth police interrogation, dated 29 July 2019 (P/12B), shows that in the said interrogation, while he was silent quite a bit, the defendant told in quite detail an implicit story according to which he was deceived by his trip to the south, but he could not elaborate because he feared that if he told things he would murder himself.
It should be emphasized now that these are not spontaneous remarks that were already made in the first interrogation, but rather that they were said in a fourth interrogation that took place about two weeks after his first interrogation, and after the defendant was presented with evidence, and therefore the words should not be given their full weight. However, for the sake of example, it should be noted that on page 14 of the interrogation transcript of July 29, 2019, defendant 2 tells his interrogator the following explicit words: