Dubai, March 31: A woman broke down in tears in court on Wednesday following the pronouncement of judgement against the killers of her son.
As Presiding Judge Fahmi Mounir Fahmi of the Court of First Instance pronounced the verdict sentencing two Somali men to seven-year imprisonment for murdering a compatriot, the victim’s mother wept and shouted in an apparent dissatisfaction with the verdict.
The court also ordered the defendants be deported after serving their jail terms. The two Somalis — both in their twenties including an unemployed — are accused of killing a compatriot by stabbing him with a broken bottle and a knife in his chest and abdomen.
The two defendants are believed to have been bootleggers.
They were using an apartment in Nakheel in Naif as a place to illegally deal in liquor.
An Indian worker called the Dubai Police at dawn on September 16 last year reporting a murder.
He told the police and the Public Prosecution later that he saw the defendants assaulting a man outside a building in Nakheel in Naif.
The men were trying to drag the victim inside.
“Then one of them held him while the other stabbed him with a broken bottle in his chest and abdomen,” the witness said.
Both of the accused stabbed the victim, one with a bottle and the other with a knife. In his statement during the investigation, the Indian worker said that all the three were very drunk.
He added that he had seen the men before as they used to come to the building.
An Emirati police lieutenant, who went to the crime scene, described the victim was in his twenties. “He was lying on his back in a pool of blood”.
One of the defendants told the police officers that he did not want to kill the victim but just assault him.
He said that he had previous disputes with the victim, who allegedly used his ID card to sell a stolen mobile phone for which he was jailed in Ajman.
The forensic physician, who examined the body, said that the death was caused by deep stabbing in the chest which led to rupture in the lungs and blood vessels.
–Agencies–