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Imprisonment of an employee who tried to evict his house tenants by “damaging and threatening”

Dubai Criminal Court sentenced the accused to 3 months in prison.

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The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced a Gulf employee to three months in prison on charges of breaking into a house that his father rented to a family. The Public Prosecution charged him with the felony of threatening accompanied by a request, and two misdemeanors of destroying money owned by others and violating the sanctity of others’ property.

In the ruling, the Criminal Court stated that, according to the case papers, the victim’s family rented a house in Al-Awir area, and because of the desire of one of the heirs of this house to evict the tenants from it, he entered it without their permission or consent carrying a hammer and deliberately destroyed the family’s property, and one of them threatened to beat .

The victim said in the investigations of the Public Prosecution that he was in his house with his brothers and sisters when he heard a sound outside, so he went to the source of the sound and found the accused in his hand a hammer with which he broke the curtain frame, the lighting and the house bell. Then he went further and entered his brother's bedroom without asking permission and with his hammer in hand, he went to the police station and wrote a report against him. While his brother stated that he heard a sound of disturbance and cracking, then he was surprised by the accused entering his bedroom, asking them to leave, and threatening him with the hammer he was carrying, saying, “Go out, or I will beat you.” against him.

For his part, the accused admitted in the police report and investigations of the Public Prosecution that he went to the house carrying a hammer with a wooden handle in order to disconnect the electricity from the house, and damaged the wooden box installed around the electrical transformer, and damaged the house curtain, but he retracted his confession later before the court, which did not She was assured of his denial in the light of the proven evidence, and ruled to convict him and imprison him for three months in the first accusation, while the case lapsed in the two misdemeanors of damage and violation of the sanctity of others after the victims' waiver.

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