Sharjah: Interpol help has been sought to track down an elusive suspect in the torture death of Kuwaiti student Mubarak Mesha’al Mubarak in Sharjah in February, a case in which three of his friends have been implicated.
Sharjah Police have approached Interpol to help arrest a third suspect who fled the UAE shortly before two fellow university students were arrested, said Rashid Al Omran, General Attorney of Sharjah Prosecution.
Al Omran said that the Sharjah Public Prosecution has sent a letter to the Foreign Ministry to contact the Kuwaiti consulate in UAE to hand over the third suspect to Sharjah authorities. Interpol has also been requested to bring him back to the UAE.
Lawyer Saleem Obaid Bin Sahoo from the UAE told Gulf News that he had been hired to follow up the case with family of the victim and negotiate with them to pardon the killers.
“The family of the victim want the killers to be hanged,” Bin Sahoo said. “I will follow up the case with the public prosecution and will copy the file of the case to get more details over the incident,” he said.
Mubarak, 19, died at the University City Hospital in Sharjah on February 24. Two suspects in the case, Y.S. and H.M, are being held at Sharjah’s Central Prison awaiting further action.
The suspects in the death of Mubarak, a Kuwaiti student of the University of Sharjah, said they had repeatedly beaten the 19-year-old over a period of three days for allegedly harassing one of their female relatives, official sources conducting the investigations told Gulf News.
It is understood that Mubarak was accused of harassing the sister of one of the three suspects. Authorities indicated this explained why Mubarak maintained his silence despite four days of torture and did not report the matter to police.
Video clips captured by one of the suspects and the mobile phone calls between the victim and the three suspects are still being scrutinised by authorities investigating the case in Sharjah.
Two of the suspects were arrested soon after Mubarak’s death while the third managed to flee the country and authorities are working to bring the suspect who is at large to face justice in the UAE.
“It will take time to complete the process of the interrogation and to transfer the suspects to the court to issue its verdict in the case,” the official said.
The public prosecution received the forensic laboratory report on Mubarak’s death on Saturday, Gulf News has learnt.
Al Omran told Gulf News that forensic investigations revealed evidence of torture that can help solve the case.
The Sharjah Public Prosecution received the forensic report from Abu Dhabi. The report pointed to injuries and bruises across the victim’s body. There were traces of burns and the report suggested that various objects were used to inflict physical harm.
The report confirmed that there were no signs of toxins or drugs in the victim’s body.
Sharjah Public Prosecution sent the forensic report to the Kuwaiti consulate in Dubai and it has been sent across to authorities in Kuwait.
“Two suspects confessed to their crime before the prosecution and they said that they tortured the victim for three days which makes the case not such a mystery any more. They did not deny what they did,” Al Omran said.
“The prosecution is still investigating the murder case and will interrogate the witnesses in the case by the beginning of this week,” he said.
The Sharjah Attorney General is currently analysing the video clips found on the cellphones of the suspects besides collecting other evidence like the phone calls which might help prosecutors shed light on the crime.
