Bad friends quarrel before the prosecution.. and "Dubai Criminal Court" settle their matter

The bad friendship between two Gulf young men revealed its true metal when each of them turned on the other during their interrogation in a crime of forced theft. To that they are responsible for all the acts committed even if one of them did not commit some of them, and convicted them of stealing a wallet containing 7,000 dirhams under duress, and sentenced them to three years in prison. .

In detail, according to the lawsuit papers, two young friends of Gulf nationality agreed to steal people's money on the public road, and while they were wandering in the car of one of them's father, they spotted a person inside his car in one of the public parking lots. And then the accused tried to punch him, but he avoided the assault, and the accused noticed that there was a wallet in the car door from the inside, so he stole it and ran away with his friend.

The papers stated that the defendants then proceeded to a petrol station in the Nad al-Hamar area, and one of them used the credit card that was in the victim’s wallet to purchase some items from the station’s store. Follow them from their arrival point to the petrol station.

A witness from the Dubai Police stated in the investigations of the Public Prosecution that immediately after reporting the incident, the two accused used a bank card belonging to the victim in a purchase from a petrol station. Its owner directly, and it was confirmed that his son was driving it, so he was arrested.

When the first accused was asked about the incident, he stated that he had been friends with the second accused for nearly a year, and they were traveling together in his father’s car, and his friend asked him to stop near another vehicle that was standing in a public parking early in the morning of the incident, and then came down and asked him to leave the place and he would follow him And he returned five minutes later by taxi, and told him that he stole the victim’s wallet after hitting him, pointing out that he asked his friend for a sum of money to buy some items, so he gave him a bank card belonging to the victim, so he used it to buy, then he was surprised by a call from the police.

For his part, the second defendant lied the story of his friend, the first defendant, and decided in the investigations of the Public Prosecution that he was accompanied by the latter in his father’s car, and then his friend spotted a car parked in a public parking lot, so he stopped and asked him to wait in the car, got out of it and surprised the victim and stole his wallet, Then they stopped at the station and used the card to make purchases.

In addition, the two defendants retracted their statements before the Criminal Court and denied the accusations against them, and their defense tried to question the evidence, and the lawyer of one of them argued that there was no coercion element in the crime of theft.


For its part, after examining the case and the confessions of the accused at one stage of the case, the court concluded that there was an element of coercion, and that the element of fraud was not available, according to the accusations made by the Public Prosecution, and it did not pay attention to the defendants’ denials and their attempt to accuse the other, and decided to convict them and punish them with three years imprisonment. And a fine of 8,223 dirhams.

For their part, the two defendants appealed the verdict before the Court of Appeal, which also found their convictions, but clemency was used and the penalty was reduced to one year's imprisonment with the prescribed fine.

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