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At trial, he quickly recanted his confessions, accusing the authorities of denying him access to his lawyers, medication and any sleep at all. He also alleged that the real killer was roaming free and that Roman
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In July 2004, while in a detention center in
Tiberias, a fight broke out between the prisoners. After having breakfast the next day, Farhan followed Aharon Simchov, one of the prisoners involved in the fight who cooperated with authorities, to the shower area. With all noises camouflaged by the
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As an adult, Yahya Farhan would become a career criminal responsible for a variety of crimes but still managed to marry a woman named Zeriya, with whom he had four children, one of which, a daughter, suffered from kidney disease. He spent little time with them due to spending time in various
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for robberies and theft and was awaiting trial for one of the rape cases. When interrogated, Farhan confessed to his crimes and the other murders, implicating Y. in helping him with two of them. His guilt was definitely proven, as he managed to recreate the
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Farhan first entered the criminal world at the age of 16, but was arrested and imprisoned for the first time in 1998, at the age of 22. Since then, he has had numerous convictions, serving time in the Shita, Ashmoret, Tzalmon and Eshel prisons. According to police from the
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