Dubai: A man won his final appeal against prosecutors after Dubai’s highest court cleared him of premeditatedly stabbing a male prostitute to death in his home.

The Dubai Cassation Court acquitted the 23-year-old Pakistani man, K.H., of intentionally killing his countryman, A.K.

Records said the man agreed to have sex with A.K., for Dh500.

K.H. and his friend, K.A. went to A.K.’s home in Jebel Ali before stabbing the victim and killing him after they had a fight when he tried to have sex with K.H.

In October 2013, the Dubai Court of First Instance sentenced K.H. for life in jail.

In January 2014, the Dubai Appeal Court overturned the life sentence and acquitted the man.

Prosecutors appealed the appellate judgement before the Cassation Court and asked for the implementation of a life sentence or capital punishment.

The man had pleaded not guilty contending that he did not kill the victim.

Presiding judge Mohammad Nabeel Riyadh dismissed the prosecutors’ appeal and upheld K.H.’s acquittal.

K.H. said that he was defending himself when they fought.

A policeman said the murder happened in a workers’ accommodation in Jebel Ali.

“Police interrogators and forensic experts examined the murder scene. Unidentified fingerprints were lifted from the victim’s room. K.A., who worked for the same company, had applied for leave and left the UAE.

“Shortly before that police had taken his fingerprints...later on his fingerprints matched those lifted from the crime scene.

“K.A. was arrested at Dubai International Airport when he returned from leave on October 25, 2009. K.A. admitted during questioning that K.H. told him that he was going to visit A.K. in his room. K.A. said when they entered the victim’s room, the latter immediately took off his clothes and had sex with K.H. K.A. claimed that when they finished, A.K. asked K.H. to have his turn, but the latter got angry and fought with the victim. K.H. grabbed a knife and stabbed the victim twice, according to K.A.

“The latter said when the victim fought back and shouted, K.H. asked to keep him quiet. When I questioned K.A. he claimed that when the victim kicked him, he [K.A.] took a knife and stabbed the victim until they ensured that he dropped dead,” the policeman said.

Prosecution records did not mention how and when K.H. was arrested.

However, his acquittal became irrevocable.