Manama: Bahrain’s High Criminal Court on Tuesday jailed an expatriate for two years for manslaughter of a Saudi Arabian customer in a cafeteria, a media report said.
The unnamed Indian, aged 30, who worked as a cafeteria employee, was arrested for knocking down a Saudi man, who suffered a severe head injury, in his restaurant in Exhibitions Avenue area in Bahrain’s capital Manama Nov 29 last year, Bahraini media reported on Wednesday.
Mohammad Al Jaffer died with a fractured skull two days later.
While convicting the 30-year-old man of manslaughter, the judges said: “The defendant confessed to the charges to prosecutors and his co-defendant’s (brother’s) testimony confirmed the incident had taken place.”
“He (the victim) did not say that both the cafeteria employees assaulted the victim, only one of them. Therefore, we found the defendant guilty of manslaughter and acquitted his co-defendant,” the court verdict said.
The court ordered his deportation on completion of his imprisonment.
The defendant’s brother works at the same restaurant.
While pleading not guilty to murder, the defendant claimed the Saudi national first attacked him with a shoe at the restaurant when he refused to set him up with women.
The victim and his Saudi friend were in Bahrain on holiday when the incident happened.
The restaurant workers claimed the two Saudi nationals were drunk at around 8 am when they started knocking over tables and chairs, before the victim assaulted the 30-year-old employee with a shoe.
