The father of one of the Danish X Factor winners, is wanted in connection with a 2005 murder.
He is the father of the ‘Jasmin’ half of duo Anthony Jasmin, and was not present when his daughter claimed first place in X Factor last weekend because he is allegedly a killer on the run.
Danish magazine Se og Hor published an article last week claiming that the father of the talented 15-year-old is Ahmed Numan Isaac Rahma, a Sudanese man who also goes by the name Jaguar, who murdered and dismembered 41-year-old Danish cab-driver Torben Vagn Knudsen in 2005.
Rahma and his American accomplice Jared Heller had invited Knudsen to Rahma’s apartment in the district of Adelgade, Copenhagen, where they stabbed him to death in the bath. The next day a dog walker discovered an arm and a leg in a bin, while a headless torso was later found in a nearby chute.
Rahma is wanted by Interpol, which believes he returned to Sudan to evade the authorities.
Six days after Anthony Jasmin won X Factor, Se og Hor published an interview with the teenage singer.
The magazine’s editor-in-chief Niels Pinborg explained that they knew the details of the story but Jasmin wouldn’t agree to an interview until after the final. He said Jasmin most likely felt if the story was published in the run-up to the final it would ruin her chances of winning, adding that he did not want to spoil those chances.