The family of Inbal Amram, who was murdered by car thief Mohammed Jaidi in 2006, has decided to sue the police, saying that police negligence led to Inbal’s death. Inbal’s mother, Havatzelet Amram, explained that she and her husband went to the police a short time after Inbal failed to pick her sister up from a party a short distance from the house. The police did not take her complaint seriously, she said, and refused to even trace Inbal’s cell phone to figure out where the 21-year-old could be.
Even after tracing the phone two hours later and discovering that it was located in a remote field, the police failed to begin a search, Amram said. If police had taken the case seriously, she said, Inbal could have been saved. Instead Inbal bled to death over the course of several hours.
Amram said she was suing the police “so they will learn a lesson.” If Inbal had been the daughter of a minister, she said, the police would have begun searching for her immediately. The police should learn “not to brush off the simple citizens,” she said.