UAE | Crime
Dh 1 million blood money to victim's parents
Parents of a victim have pardoned the killer of their son after he paid them Dh1 million blood money, court source told Gulf News.
- By Bassma Al Jandaly, Staff Reporter
- Published: 23:07 June 21, 2009
Sharjah: Parents of a victim have pardoned the killer of their son after he paid them Dh1 million blood money, court source told Gulf News.
The father of the killer earlier offered an unlimited amount of blood money to the murder victim's parents to pardon him for a crime he committed nine years ago.
The parents have already accepted Dh1 million in blood money (diya) after they demanded their son's killer be executed. The victim, a Palestinian in his twenties, was playing with his son in a Sharjah shopping mall when he was murdered by M.A., an Emirati, over a disagreement concerning their children in the mall's play area.
The victim's wife was in hospital at the time giving birth to their second child.
The appeal court in Sharjah coordinated with the Sharia court in Jordan where the victim's family lives to get a reply regarding accepting Dh1 million as blood money offered by the killer's father.
The approval came from Jordan after one year.
The Sharia Court of First Instance in Sharjah handed down the death sentence which was upheld by the Appeal Court and also confirmed by the Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi.
After being pardoned by the victim's parents he was sentenced to three years in jail and ordered to pay the blood money. The killer was released recently.
At the time of the crime nine years ago, the victim asked the other child at the play area in the mall to share a toy, but the child's mother grew angry and called her husband.
Several minutes later, M.A. rushed to the play area with a metal tool and hit the victim on the head.
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