Yesterday, the Criminal Court of Appeal in Ras Al-Khaimah heard the defense of a Gulf defendant accused of killing his wife, an Arab, strangled by a pillow, after she asked him for a divorce as a result of differences between them, moved the corpse to the dining room in the house’s attachment, set fire to the place to mislead justice, and hide Crime features, and the Public Prosecution demanded that he be executed.
The indictment stated that the accused intentionally killed his wife by holding her breath with a pillow, intending to take her soul, and causing her injuries, as well as deliberately setting fire to the dining room by burning a number of pieces of cloth, with the aim of misleading justice, concealing crime evidence, and denying the accused at all stages The investigations the charges assigned to him.
The Court of First Instance had sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment, and obliged him to lead to the heirs of the victim 200,000 dirhams of legal blood money, and the Public Prosecution appealed the ruling, and he requested acceptance of the appeal, and the appellant be punished with death, while obliging him to pay a heavy debt.
The defense lawyer for the accused, Ramzi Al-Ajouz, during his presentation before the court, said that his client denied at all stages of the investigations that he had killed his wife, continuing that he demanded in his defense note to examine the DNA of the fingerprints on the neck and the victim was issued, to verify the identity of the perpetrator of the crime.
He explained that the accusations leveled against his client were based on presumptive evidence, conclusions not based on peremptory evidence, as well as the lack of motivation of the accused to commit the crime, contradicting the witnesses of evidence, the lack of technical evidence in the case papers attributing the crime to his client, and the papers being free from evidence or witness to Correctness of the charge.
He pointed out that the technical evidence came short, and did not clearly disclose that the accused committed the murder, as the report of the anatomical description of the victim revealed that the percentage of blood saturation with oxygen was 27% upon death, indicating that she had died before the fire broke out, and that the cause of death was a drop In the blood circulation and respiration, as a result of exposure to acute suffocation, in addition to finding traces of blood in different locations from the location of the incident, and the presence of three fires in the kitchen room, due to a fast flammable source such as a matchstick, and the source cannot reach those who are in the dining room and before The fire is at an appropriate period of time.
He explained that the rulings in the criminal articles must be based on assertion and certainty, not on suspicion and possibility, and asked the court to absolve his client of the charges that were attributed to him, and rejected the civil lawsuit, and the court decided on January 28 to pronounce the ruling in the case.
The defense demanded the acquittal of the accused and rejected the civil lawsuit.