UAE | Crime
Man bludgeons mechanic with cue
A mechanic became epileptic, suffered urine incontinence and incurred partial deafness and blindness after an employee, who stood trial on Sunday, battered his head with a billiard cue.
- By Bassam Za'za,' Senior Reporter
- Published: 23:50 November 16, 2008
Dubai: A mechanic became epileptic, suffered urine incontinence and incurred partial deafness and blindness after an employee, who stood trial on Sunday, battered his head with a billiard cue.
The Public Prosecution charged the 25-year-old Emirati employee with intentionally causing 55 per cent permanent disability after he beat the 27-year-old Lebanese mechanic on his head with a billiard cue.
The employee went on trial yesterday before the Dubai Court of First Instance where he is being prosecuted for assaulting and causing permanent disability to the mechanic who is being prosecuted before the Misdemeanours Court for cursing the Emirati.
Medical reports confirmed that the Lebanese man suffers epilepsy, urine incontinence and his vision and hearing weakened on the right side after he received a massive blow on his head.
The mechanic's sister testified that her brother went to check on the Emirati whose car overturned after the accident. "The employee took my brother by surprise and assaulted him with the billiard cue... I thought my brother had died because the blow made a loud noise when the stick hit his head. He fell on the floor and meanwhile I pushed away the employee and cried in his face 'may God never forgive you'."
The mechanic told the public prosecutor who questioned him, "I rushed towards the Emirati's car to check on him. He said he was okay when I asked him how he was. I feared that he might have suffered an internal bleeding and asked him to crawl out of his overturned vehicle. After I asked my sister to bring him some drinking water, he surprised me and beat me with the cue."
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