The Dubai Court of Appeal has upheld a life sentence handed down by a criminal court to a visitor (Asian) accused of murdering a man of his nationality, one day after his arrival in the country. It also handed down sentences ranging from one to five years to seven other defendants convicted of covering up the crime and attempting to conceal the body.
An Asian resident helped uncover the murder after he noticed men and women coming out of an apartment next to his apartment, including three people whose hands and clothes were contaminated with blood.He was suspected and told the police, who seized a perpetrator minutes before he fled through Dubai airport.
According to investigations conducted by the Public Prosecution, the defendant was beaten with a bottle on his head, stabbed to death, washed his hands from his blood and left the place. The defendant tried to move the body in Carton, in cooperation with other defendants, but the person living in a neighboring apartment He saw them, and he had doubts about them, and he informed the police.
He denied the convict before the Criminal Court for deliberately killing the victim, pointing out that a quarrel between them and was defending himself, but the court convicted him, and supported the "appeal" judgment.
The eyewitness, a businessman, said that he was returning from abroad with his family on the evening of the incident, and when he opened the elevator door, he saw five Asian girls coming out of an apartment next to his apartment, showing signs of fear. Wait in the corridor until he really understands what is happening. In the meantime, he saw a man coming out of the apartment, one of his hands stained with blood, he asked him why, and the man told him that it was a normal quarrel, but he doubted it, and waited a little, and saw another person out of the same door with clothes and hands stained with blood, and then a third came out in the same body The latter returned a few minutes later with a shopping cart (Trolly) in front of him. He said that he had heard the sound of a sticker coming from inside the apartment.
A witness from Dubai Police said that he moved to the scene and listened to the eyewitness testimony. Entering the apartment found the body of a person hidden inside a box of medium-sized cardboard paper, and a team was formed to follow up the report and search for the perpetrator.
The team subsequently arrested the defendants who were inside the apartment at the time of the crime, then ambushed the killer after locating him and managed to arrest him. Asked, he said that he came to the state a day before the incident to meet a friend, and after dinner with him told his friend that he wanted to go to a massage apartment.
The defendant stated that he was waiting in the apartment when the victim went out and insulted him for no reason, so he got angry and replied, but the deceased beat him with a bottle of wine, which provoked his great emotion, he went to the kitchen and brought a knife and stabbed him to death, then bathed in his clothes and left the apartment for his friend , Where he changed his shirt and shoes there.
A Dubai police witness found the victim's body hidden inside a cardboard box.