WEIRD NEWS OF THE WEEK: Nine-month-old baby charged with attempted murder goes on the run

Can a baby who can't walk yet go on the run? This nine-month-old Pakistani boy accused of murder has done just that.

12:03 09 April 2014

Musa Khan may not be able to walk or speak properly but that hasn't stopped the nine-month-old allegedly attempting to murder someone according to Pakistani police. 

 

The little boy was recently charged with attempted murder after being arrested following a group protest over gas cuts and price increases in Lahore which his parents attended. 

 

Apparently the baby was one of those in the crowd who threw rocks with an intent to kill the police. His father and grandfather also stand accused, but now they've gone on the lam after being bailed. 

 

It's doubted that the little boy will make his next day in court. He did, however, attend his first day in court and cried while his fingerprints were taken by a court official and later on tried to play with journalists’ microphones as his grandfather spoke to the media outside the court. 

 

His grandfather was telling the media that “he does not even know how to pick up his milk bottle properly, how can he stone the police?”

 

Pakistan's The News International criticised the whole debacle, stating: "How far police inefficiency and malice can go in Pakistan sometimes is hard to guess, as it nominated a nine-month-old infant as one of the accused of planning a murder, threatening a police team and interfering in state affairs."

 

Recently,  his grandfather Muhammad Yasin told Reuters: “Police are vindictive. Now they are trying to settle the issue on personal grounds, that’s why I sent my grandson to Faisalabad for protection.”

 

It has also been reporteed that the jobsworth assistant superintendent of police who filed charges in the first place has been suspended. Whether or not he spat his dummy out when he got suspended is unclear.