"Harun murdered my child. If there were a punishment higher than death sentence, that too would not be enough for his crimes."

Abdus Salam, father of Samia Afrin Saima who was raped and murdered in Wari, was talking to The Daily Star after a Dhaka court sentenced the lone accused Harun Or Rashid to death in the case.

Salam also said he was satisfied with the verdict and now hopes it will be implemented as quickly as possible.

Saima's father said he believes this is a message to everyone that perpetrators of such crimes won't be spared.

Saima, a nursery student of Silverdale Preparatory and Girls' High School, was murdered after she was raped in the building where she lived with her family at Dhaka's Wari on July 5 last year.

A day after the murder, her father Abdus Salam filed a case under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act.

A Dhaka court today sentenced Harun to death for the rape and murder of Saima.