Ajman: An Indian man slashed his brother's neck, killing him, after he warned him not to marry an Indonesian girl, in love with someone else.
The 33-year-old defendant, E.K., was said to have hacked his brother, M.K., to death after they quarrelled following a heated argument.
Sources close to the investigation told Gulf News that the Indonesian girl's Indian lover, K.S., tried to run over the two brothers and kill them when he learnt about M.K.'s intention to marry his girlfriend.
The girl stayed in M.K.'s flat for two months, but moved out two days ahead of the killing because K.S. allegedly intensified his death threats against the brothers, said sources.
Prosecutors accused E.K. of pushing M.K. to the floor, stabbing him in the neck and head before slashing his neck to make sure he died.
The Ajman Appeals Court is currently looking into the case of E.K., earlier sentenced to 30 months in prison by the Court of First Instance, which convicted him of the premeditated murder of his brother.
Punishment
E.K. obtained a reduced punishment, after he got a waiver from his father and submitted it to court.
Court records said E.K. told the police at around 8am, that an unidentified person had murdered his brother while he was in the bathroom.
E.K. told the police that he finished using the washroom and walked out to discover his brother dead.
According to preliminary investigations, witnesses in the neighbourhood said they suspected the woman's boyfriend, K.S., whom they saw driving his car around the building the night before.
Witnesses told police interrogators that K.S. tried to run over the two brothers a few days before the incident.
Police seized a copy of the Indonesian's woman's passport in M.K.'s flat.
Further investigations exposed that around 5.55am (at the time of the murder) E.K. received a phone call from an Indian woman named, S.
Records said when S. was brought to the police station, E.K. broke down in tears and confessed that he killed his brother. He admitted that he phoned S. and told her what he did.
The convict is scheduled to present his defence when the court reconvenes next week.
