Sharjah: An Asian labourer is on death row after a court in Sharjah found him guilty of murdering another man five years ago.

According to court records, a now 26-year-old Bangladeshi man murdered another man by stabbing him more than 30 times all over his body.

The Indian victim died on the spot.

The murderer, identified as M.K., was only 21 when he killed his victim, B.K.

The victim's parents have refused to pardon the killer, and are insisting on capital punishment.

Court papers stated that M.K. was handed the death sentence by the Sharjah Sharia Court of First Instance, which he appealed.

However, the appeal court upheld the death sentence.

Appeal

M.K. took the case to the Abu Dhabi Supreme Court, which accepted the appeal and sent the case back to be heard in the Appeal Court in Sharjah, where the death sentence was reconfirmed.

Court documents showed that M.K., with the help of four Bangladeshi men escaped to Muscat in Oman with his elder brother, J.A.D.

The court found M.K. guilty of premeditated murder by intentionally killing B.K. by stabbing him repeatedly with a knife.

The crime was reported to police by an owner of a warehouse in Industrial Area number two where B.K.'s body was left in a pool of blood.

M.K. and his brother were arrested in Oman and brought to Sharjah.

M.K. told the court that he borrowed money from B.K. who used to lend people money with high interest rates. The killer said B.K. demanded his money back, threatening — with a knife — to rape him if he didn't receive it.

M.K. said the pair fought, and the knife fell down from B.K.'s hand. M.K. said he then stabbed B.K. several times and ran away. M.K. said he went back to his room and washed his clothes which were stained with B.K.'s blood and then informed his elder brother J.A.D. about his crime.

The killer told the public prosecutor that the victim was drunk and that he had had sex with him [the killer] twice.

Self-defence

The two brothers went to a man identified as M.M. who asked a taxi driver in Dubai to take them to Al Ain.

They met with another man, also identified as M.M., in Al Ain who took them to an Omani man in Al Quoz area.

That man transported them to Muscat via the Al Buraimi area in return for Dh1,500 from each of them.

M.K.'s lawyer asked the court for leniency saying the killer had stabbed the other man in self-defence.