UAE | Crime
Court rejects absent doctor's written plea
Medic, accused of refusing to resuscitate cardiac patient, fails to attend court due to his wife's death
- By Bassam Za'Za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 00:00 February 23, 2012
Dubai A court Wednesday refused to accept the written defence submitted by the lawyer of a doctor, charged with premeditated murder for refusing to resuscitate a cardiac patient, due to his absence.
The 50-year-old doctor, Y.A., and a 49-year-old doctor, M.O., pleaded not guilty and denied the charge of premeditated murder when they appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance.
The Court's Presiding Judge Maher Salama Al Mahdi refused to take the written defence from Y.A.'s lawyer Azza Ebrahim Al Mulla due to technical procedures.
"As long as your client is absent and did not show up, I cannot accept the defence from you," Presiding Judge Al Mahdi told Azza.
"Sir, our client attended all the hearings. He missed this hearing due to unusual circumstances, which are his wife's death," replied Azza.
The judge then told her that she had to submit the written defence by attaching it to the case file via the public prosecution.
According to the arraignment sheet, prosecutors accused Y.A., an Austrian, and M.O., an Indian, of premeditated murder after they refused to revive an Indian patient who had a heart attack in a government hospital.
Her fellow lawyer Jameela Al Zahrani, defending M.O., provided the court with what she called "documents obtained from the hospital's legal department confirming that the electronic file of the patient was tampered with."
"Your honour, initially we ask the court to acquit our client. However we provide the court with documents which were validated by the hospital's legal department. The documents confirm that the patient's e-file was forged by someone who had access to it."
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