They used machetes, knives and cars in the execution of the crime

Trial of 16 people accused of killing an Asian for “imposing control”

The Ras Al Khaimah Criminal Appeals Court is hearing a case in which 16 people (Asians and Africans) are accused of using white weapons, machetes and iron tools in carrying out their crime, killing an (Asian) merchant and attempting to kill two of his companions, with the aim of imposing their control over the region.

The indictment of the Public Prosecution stated that the defendants, who numbered 57, had deliberately killed the first victim (M.H.M) out of revenge, prepared knives and rode five four-wheel drive vehicles. They also proceeded to kill the second victim (M.R.S.), and the third (H.A.), and stole their property, as well as assaulting the safety of the fourth victim (A.M.A.).

The Court of First Instance had sentenced the fifth, 11th, 14th, 29th and 32nd defendants to life imprisonment for the charges against them in connection, and obligated all of them to pay the victim’s heirs 266,666 dirhams of legal blood money, and ordered their deportation from the state after the execution of the penalty and the sources of the seizures, and it acquitted the rest of the defendants of the charges. However, the five defendants appealed against their life imprisonment sentence, and the Public Prosecution also appealed the acquittal of 11 defendants.

The case papers indicated that what settled in the court’s certainty was that the first victim resolved, in October of last year, to take the place of the crime as a headquarters for the liquor trade, and asked the second, third and fourth victims to go with him in return for 50 dirhams to help him.

She added that the fifth, 11th, 14th, 29th, and 32nd defendants, and others unknown, came to the place independently of five cars, and resolved and intended to kill the victim and those accompanying him to impose their control on the place, and they brought with them knives and machetes, and the fifth defendant asked them to kill them, so the fifth, 14 and 32 defendants attacked the victim. Four of them, and beat the victim until he died.

It indicated that the 11 and 29 defendants and unknown others tracked down the second victim, caught him and beat him on the head, and he fell to the ground, and stole his mobile phone from him. The fourth victim was stoned when he fled, causing injuries to him.

The defense attorney for the accused from the first to 56, lawyer Mahmoud Al-Shibl, confirmed during his pleading before the court that his clients denied the charges against them, and there is no evidence of their confession either before the Public Prosecution or the court, and accordingly the criminal case is devoid of evidence.

He pointed to the contradiction in the statements of the witnesses in the case, and there is no intent to kill and there is no agreement on it, and the defense witnesses proved that the accused were not present at the time of the crime at the scene of the incident, and he sought the innocence of his clients based on the invalidity of the arrest of their clients due to the lack of sufficient evidence and the lack of seriousness of investigations, and the lack of seriousness of investigations. The reasonableness of the incident, and the absence of a premeditated circumstance in the crime.

In the ruling, the Court of First Instance said that the evidence and evidence of the accusations against the fifth, 11, 14, 29 and 32 defendants, and others unknown, were proven with the conviction and belief of the court that they killed the first victim premeditated, and proceeded to kill the second and third victims, and sentenced the accused to life imprisonment. And it obligated them to pay the heirs of the victim 266 thousand and 666 dirhams as legal blood money, and ordered their deportation, and ruled that the rest of the accused were acquitted of the charges against them.

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