Dubai, September 11: An under-trial former ski trainer killed a woman, he had allegedly threatened with life and limb, then committed suicide by jumping off a building, days after he was released on bail by a court.
Police said the Moroccan man had spent about a month in police custody, before being bailed out, for allegedly threatening to behead the 46 year-old victim, kill her 12 year-old son and cut her husband’s legs off and burn her house if she did not give him money.
The defence counsel representing Singaporean housewife, who had sued the Moroccan over repeated threats and assault attempts, had told the court on Wednesday that the case does no longer stand since both the defendant and the plaintiff are dead. He also stood trial for publicly insulting the woman.
“The defendant killed himself on Monday after stabbing the Singaporean housewife to death outside her villa in Umm Suqeim,” the lawyer told Presiding Judge Fahmi Mouniri.
The last court hearing in the trial was on July 26 in which the Moroccan, who was back then detained, pleaded not guilty. He was released on the same day on bail.
The woman’s husband had earlier told the police that the Moroccan once came to their villa and tried to take his wife out forcefully. “He tried to break the door and threatened my wife by saying ‘I will kill you and your son and cut your husband’s legs,” the husband had stated in a complaint.
On last August 6, the Criminal Investigation Department of the Dubai police in Muraqqabat received a complaint against the Moroccan. The women sought police help claiming that the Moroccan was threatening and stalking her. The police summoned the accused but he did not show up.
On August 7, the murdered woman filed another complaint with the police stating that the Moroccan was becoming increasingly more dangerous.
Sources told Khaleej Times that on that morning, the woman was coming back home when she got terrified to see the Moroccan in the backyard. As soon as he saw her he stabbed her repeatedly and also slashed her sister. The victim was rushed to Rashid Hospital where she remained in coma before being pronounced dead.
The Moroccan, in the meantime, had committed suicide by jumping off the third floor off a building near Media City, police said. According to the court records, the housewife met the Moroccan in June 2008 in the Mall of the Emirates. Back then, the Moroccan was working as a ski trainer and the woman used to take her son for some ski lessons.
–Agencies
–Agencies