Death penalty for a drug addict who killed his father with 36 stab wounds

Al Ain Criminal Court issued a ruling convicting an Emirati young man of killing his father with 36 stab wounds, and damaging his brother's car by deliberately hitting it with his car several times in order to prevent him from helping his victim father to the hospital.

And it sentenced him to death by retribution after the blood guardians insisted on seeking retribution and refused to pardon the accused.

In the details of the case, according to witnesses and investigations;

The accused was constantly asking for money from the victim's father, who sometimes gave it to him and withheld it at other times, knowing that the accused used it to buy psychotropic substances.

The accused used to beat his father whenever he refrained from providing him with money to buy drugs. He is a former convict in a case of drug abuse, where he was placed for drug addiction treatment in a clinic.

On the day of the incident that occurred after Tarawih prayers during the last month of Ramadan, the accused lured the victim to the courtyard of the house under the pretext of talking to him, and as soon as he approached him at an appropriate distance, he stabbed him 36 times with a sharp scalpel in various parts of his body.

When the accused's brother saw the incident from the balcony of his room, he went down to the hall of the house, where he put his father in his car and tried to help him, but the accused broke into the courtyard of the house with his car and hit his brother's car several times until it became unable to move.

On the other hand, the second brother reported;

who was outside the home;

The police after hearing his father's screams while talking to him on the mobile phone, and he knew that he was going to talk to the accused in the courtyard of the house and that the latter used to beat him, and the victim's brother also attended and took him to the hospital, but he was dead.

The family prosecution in Al Ain had referred the accused to the Criminal Court on charges of premeditated murder.

He was accused of deliberately damaging his brother's vehicle by hitting it with his own vehicle while he was aware of the presence of the victim's father inside it in order to prevent him from being rescued and completing the crime, in addition to accusing him of using the psychotropic substance "pregabalin" in cases other than those authorized by law.

In its pleading before the court, the Public Prosecution demanded the imposition of the maximum penalty on the accused, and considered that the fact that the victim is the accused's father is an aggravating factor.

As for the defense lawyer, he argued that the accused committed the crime under the influence of a state of temporary insanity as a result of drug use, and relied in her defense on the statements of the accused who claimed not to remember any of the facts of the crime, which was denied by the medical committee, stressing that the accused was responsible for his actions and statements at the time of the incident.

On the defense's claim to cancel the intent of the crime, the court affirmed its conviction that the crime was committed intentionally, due to the accused's insistence on completing the crime by preventing the rescue of the victim.

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