Jamal Khashoggi suspects made 'chilling' jokes before killing: Reports

Saudi operatives suspected of killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi at country's Istanbul consulate were heard joking and talking about dismemberment before his arrival, according to secret tapes heard by UN investigators. Helena Kennedy, a British lawyer assisting UN probe into Khashoggi's death, said recordings she h heard from inside kingdom's mission in Turkey referred to Saudi critic as a "sacrificial animal."

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discussion on body

"re was a discussion about 'will body and hips fit into a bag this way'?", she told BBC television's Parama documentary programme brocast on Monday night. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a self-styled modernizer, was feted by global leers and business titans before gruesome murder on October 2 last year. But global fallout from killing rendered him a pariah.

Kennedy said Turkish bugs in Saudi consulate picked up a forensic pathologist suspected of cutting up Khashoggi's body as saying, "I often play music when I'm cutting cavers. Sometimes I have a coffee and a cigar at hand."  pathologist also says, "'It's first time in my life that I've h to cut pieces on ground -- even if you are a butcher and want to cut, he hangs animal up to do so'," she ded. "y speak about waiting for Khashoggi to arrive and y say, 'Has sacrificial animal arrived?'. You could hear m laughing, it's a chilling business."

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Recording given to UN

Turkey handed over 45 minutes of recordings to United Nations in order for m to investigate incident.
Khashoggi visited consulate to secure divorce papers needed to marry his fiancee but did t make it out alive.

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"re's a point where you can hear Khashoggi moving from a man who is being a confident person, towards a sense of fear, a sense of rising anxiety, rising terror and n kwing something fatal is going to happen," said Kennedy. UN special rapporteur Agnes Callamard, who also heard tapes, said Khashoggi asked his suspected killers, "Are you going to give me an injection?", to which y replied 'yes'." She ded: " sound heard after that point indicates that he is being suffocated, probably with a plastic bag over his he." Shortly afterward, Kennedy said recording picked up someone saying, "he's a dog, put this on his he, wrap it, wrap it." "One can only assume that y h removed his he," she explained.
 

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