He attributed his crime to repeated altercations between them

Life imprisonment for a worker who strangles him with a piece of cloth

The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced an (Asian) garden worker to life in prison for killing his elderly and sick employer by suffocating with a piece of cloth while he was sleeping, attributing his crime to the victim's frequent grumblings about him, repeated verbal altercations between them, and their quarrel before killing him, as he sat next to a dead body. The victim was killed about an hour after the crime was committed.

The wife of the victim said in the investigations of the Public Prosecution, that she was serving some purposes for her home with her children, and when she returned in the evening, the accused met her at the entrance, and told her that the deceased victim had fallen to the ground, and around his neck a piece of cloth was wrapped, so she rushed towards the room in which her husband is, and she It is part of a separate annex in the courtyard of the villa in which the family resides, and she did not see it at first, until the accused directed her to the place of his fall near a refrigerator. She thought that he had fallen into a drunken coma as usual, while he was on his way to the bathroom, so she informed the police.

She added that the accused asked her to keep the phone of the victim when the ambulance came and then handed it to her later, pointing out that the ambulancemen told her that he actually died, and could no longer be saved, while the accused disappeared from the scene when the police came.

She explained that her husband was suffering from diabetes, and had previously had surgery in one of his eyes, and that he does not hear well, and cannot walk alone, but his mental strength was good.

The son of the victim said that he took his father to the hospital on the morning of the incident, then they returned to the house, and the son fell asleep for two hours, and left to the house of one of his friends, until he received a call from his mother telling him that his father was in critical condition, and lying on the ground, so he quickly returned and watched Paramedics around him, but they asked him not to approach, and he was shocked, and went to the accused to ask him what happened, but the latter was laughing and insisting that his father would get up, and he had nothing, and he was the one who called the ambulance to save him.

The son added that he later noticed the presence of a piece of cloth wrapped around his father's neck, and suspected that he had been killed, especially since the victim was repeatedly complaining about the accused's mistreatment of him, and that the latter was holding him by the neck and pushing him.

In addition, a witness from the Dubai Police said that he moved to the communication site in the Hor Al Anz area, and the detectives suggested, through the initial examination, the existence of a criminal suspicion, due to the presence of a piece of cloth wrapped around the neck of the victim, as well as the disappearance of the accused in a suspicious manner when the police arrived, and suggested the wife of The victim must have escaped because of his illegal work at home, because he is on the sponsorship of others, so the suspect was suspected, and his identity determined.

Continuing the process of searching and investigating, the work team in the case determined his place, prepared an ambush and arrested him, and the accused admitted in the police report that the victim’s son was the one who brought him to serve his father, given that the latter was elderly and sick, for 2000 dirhams per month, and he did not receive the agreed salary. And he received 800 dirhams within two months, then they reduced his salary to 600 dirhams per month.

The accused added that the victim was mistreating him, cursing him and hitting him with his stick, explaining that on the day of the incident he asked him to make him tea and shisha, so he responded to him, but he was surprised by the victim hitting him on the pretext of being late, so the accused pushed him and dropped him to the ground, and asked him to stop hitting him, so he got up and slapped him The worker pushed him again, and crouched on top of him, but the man resisted him, and tried to wrap a white cloth on the neck of the accused - according to his claim - but he pulled it from him and strangled him with it until his strength failed, and he made sure that he died, then he sat next to him for an hour after he committed the crime, and told When his wife came later, that her husband fell to the ground without knowing the reason, and then left the house after calling the police and an ambulance.

The accused tried to mislead the family members and fled when the police were called.

The worker killed his employer and sat next to the corpse for an hour.

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