Dubai: An Emirati charged with premeditated killing associated with the sexual assault of a four-year-old Pakistani boy could receive a death sentence if found guilty, Dubai's Attorney General said on Wednesday.
The 30-year-old suspect "committed a gruesome murder" which shook and shocked UAE society and Dubai Public Prosecution has requested the Dubai Court of First Instance to punish him with the death sentence, said Essam Eisa Al Humaidan, Dubai Attorney General, in a statement published by WAM news agency on Wednesday.
Investigation
"Advocate General Khalifa Bin Deemas and Chief Prosecutor Hamad Al Khalafi supervised the investigations, during which the suspect confessed to his charges. A hearing date will be scheduled soon. We requested the criminal court for a speedy trial and implementation of the capital punishment, as per the Federal Penal Code, to deter the suspect, who showed no mercy by committing this alleged inhuman crime," said Al Humaidan in the statement.
The Attorney General described the case as gruesome and "freaky" and said it shook the community, especially because it happened on the first day of Eid Al Adha. The 30-year-old Emirati has been identified as R.R.R.
Primary investigations, conducted by Chief Prosecutor Yousuf Foulaz and Senior Prosecutor Yaqoub Al Hammadi, revealed that the incident happened on November 27, prior to the Friday prayer in a mosque washroom in Al Qusais.
Al Humaidan thanked Dubai Police's CID which managed to identify and arrest the suspect within what he described as a "few hours". The defendant admitted, when he was interrogated by Foulaz and Al Hammadi, that he lured the Pakistani boy, M.M., to the washroom after promising to give him an Eid Al Adha gift.
He claimed that when he assaulted the boy sexually, the boy yelled and screamed loudly, so he strangled him and banged his head on the floor until he collapsed. Interrogations revealed that the suspect dropped the dead boy on the washroom floor and escaped.
"He re-enacted his crime before prosecutors," added the statement.
Fingerprints
Sources told Gulf News earlier that the suspect was arrested after his fingerprints matched those lifted from the crime scene.
Sources close to the investigation said the suspect admitted to having consumed liquor in Umm Al Quwain on the eve of Eid.
A hearing date will be scheduled soon.
