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International Herald TribuneNew York police recruit convicted in $3,000 plot to kill his girlfriend
The Associated Press
Published: April 2, 2007
RIVERHEAD, New York: A New York Police Department recruit was convicted Monday of conspiring to hire someone to murder his girlfriend — who stood by him throughout the trial and defied a protective order to see him.
Kabeer Din, 22, a U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, hung his head as he heard the verdict.
Din, who faces 8 1/3 to 25 years in prison, was arrested last summer after meeting with a New York undercover officer he thought was a hit man to discuss killing Sherry Nohar for $3,000 (€2,244). Din made a written confession to plotting to have the 24-year-old woman killed, and he was recorded discussing the scheme, prosecutors said.
During the trial, Nohar adamantly defended the man she continued to call her boyfriend, testifying in his defense and saying she was working to have him vindicated. Despite a court-imposed order of protection, she continued to see him, she said.
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