Abu Dhabi veto rejected the appeal

Two years imprisonment for a defendant who attempted to stab the last

The Court of Cassation in Abu Dhabi upheld an appeals verdict, which ruled to imprison someone accused of attempting to kill another with a knife for a period of two years, and to imprison him for one month for publicly insulting the same person on the public highway.

In the details, the Public Prosecution charged the defendant with the charge of attempting to deliberately kill the victim, with premeditation that he was determined to kill him, and prepared a knife for that, and as soon as he won it, he stabbed him in separate parts of his body, intending to kill him, causing injuries to him. And that the impact of the crime ceased for a reason that has nothing to do with the will of the accused, which is his escape out of fear of being caught, and the charge of insulting the victim in public has been charged, in a way that violates his honor and esteem, by directing insults to him in public and on the public road.

The Al Ain Court of First Instance, after amending the registration and description to exclude a premeditated circumstance, ruled that the accused be punished with three years imprisonment for attempted murder, and one month imprisonment for the insult charge, and obligated him to file the criminal case.

The accused appealed the verdict, and the Appeals Court ruled to amend the judgment, confining him to two years imprisonment, and confirming him with the exception, and obligated him to pay fees, and the fees were estimated at 5000 dirhams for the attorney assigned to the case, so the accused appealed the judgment from his imprisonment, and the Court of Cassation submitted a memorandum requesting that the appeal be rejected.

In his appeal against the verdict, the accused affirmed that he had been convicted of premeditated murder and public insult, violated the law, and had made a mistake in applying the provisions of Islamic law, stressing that the incident was merely a quarrel, and that his accusation only constituted a crime of assault on the victim's body, and that he was in a state of legitimate self-defense Also, he was not seized at the location of the accident, the instrument of the crime was not seized, he had no precedents, he did not commit the crime, and he did not imagine its commission, which must be taken with mercy.

For its part, the Court of Cassation confirmed, in the merits of its ruling, the availability of elements of the crime of attempted murder, and that the statements of the victim in the trial session confirmed that there were no differences between them, and that the accused intended to kill him, in addition to his statements in the investigations that the accused came in a car with others to a place He was there with his brother, got out of the car, and insulted them, and a verbal altercation occurred between him and the accused, after which the accused took out a knife and stabbed him two stabs, one in his left waist and the other on his left shoulder, intending to kill him, then he fled.

The court indicated that the statements of the four witnesses of the incident in the case supported the statements of the victim, and that the forensic report confirmed that a shoulder injury is not considered a fatal injury and does not cause death. As for the victim's injury in the upper left of the abdomen, it is considered a serious injury, which leads to To death if not corrected by treatment.

It indicated that the sentence imposed, which is imprisonment for a period of two years, falls within the scope of the penalty prescribed for the crime of intentional beatings.

Al-Ain Elementary Court ruled to exclude a premeditated circumstance punishing the accused with a 3-year prison sentence.

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