The Dubai Court of Appeal has tightened a 10 to 15 year prison sentence for an Asian who provided logistical support and provided three killers, including two hired persons, with information to kill a man of their nationality, after hiring them to avenge the victim for killing his brother, 12 years ago in his town. .
The Dubai Criminal Court ruled in the first instance of life imprisonment against the three perpetrators, while the fourth sentenced to support and information 10 years and deportation, but appealed against the verdict.The Court of Appeal rejected his appeal and tightened the verdict against him, and upheld his deportation after serving the sentence.
According to the Dubai Public Prosecution's investigation, an engineer with Asian nationality accidentally witnessed the defendants who came to the country specifically to be killed, when he was surprised by two people passing in front of his car, so he had to use the brakes so hard to avoid being bumped. He saw the body of the victim, informed the police, and found that the bleeding defendant was stabbed by one of his accomplices in error while the victim was killed.
An eyewitness to the prosecutor's investigation said that he waited until the police came and explained to them what happened and gave them the specifications of the defendants he had seen.
A Dubai police witness said the suspects were caught at Dubai airport while trying to flee to their home country. He was arrested two weeks after they were arrested.
He added that the perpetrators admitted that the third defendant offered each of them 15,000 dirhams to kill the man, and paid 5,000 token, to be paid the rest of the amount after their return home, in retaliation for the victim for killing his brother in 2005 in their country.
The witness pointed out that the three defendants came to the state in December 2017, and then inferred the address of the victim through a fourth defendant provided them with all the necessary information to carry out the crime, pointing out that the instigator of the crime waited in a car away from the scene of the crime, as the defendants turned The others came to the victim after spotting his movements the previous day, and attacked him with a hammer and knife, when they were leaving his car in the building position.