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Student who killed sister's boyfriend gets year in jail
A student's young age convinced a court to grant him a lenient punishment - one year in prison, for intentionally killing his sister's boyfriend who trespassed into their villa.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 23:31 June 9, 2009
Dubai: A student's young age convinced a court to grant him a lenient punishment - one year in prison, for intentionally killing his sister's boyfriend who trespassed into their villa.
Although the 20-year-old Kuwaiti student, who is a diplomat's son, claimed that he acted in self-defence when he stabbed the 35-year-old Emirati trespasser in his family villa, the Dubai Court of First Instance on Tuesday incriminated him of premeditated murder.
Presiding Judge Al Saeed Mohammad Barghout sentenced the accused to one year in jail.
Tuesday's verdict sheet read: "The accused, identified as A.A., was under the age of 21 when he committed the crime. The court granted him leniency according to articles 96 and 97 of the Federal Penal Code. Article 96 states that a suspect is granted leniency according to the aspects of young age, committing a crime without wicked intentions or committing a crime in reaction to provocative or intimidating behaviour from a victim. Meanwhile, Article 97 stipulates that if any of the above mentioned aspects exist in a crime, the maximum punishment of which is capital punishment, then a judge has the discretion to reduce it to a life sentence, permanent imprisonment of 3 to 15 years or no less than one year in jail."
The student had claimed that he defended himself and didn't intend to kill the deceased, B.M., who had trespassed into his family's villa in Umm Suqueim.
"I didn't kill him intentionally... I was just defending myself," argued A.A when he defended himself.
Public Prosecution records quoted the defendant's 23-year-old sister as saying that she had been having a year-long affair with the victim.
"We were having a heated argument over the phone and discussing our relationship and he claimed he would drop by but I thought he was joking so I told him that I was going to bed. Fifteen minutes later he phoned me and I didn't believe that he was outside my bedroom door until I saw him," the sister told the public prosecutor who questioned her.
Records said A.A. stabbed the deceased with a kitchen knife four times in the courtyard.
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