Dubai: An unemployed man will be sentenced in absentia after he failed to appear yesterday in court, where he was scheduled to be prosecuted for carrying a knife and cursing a merchant.
Prosecutors charged the 22-year-old Emirati man with carrying a knife and verbally threatening his 42-year-old compatriot merchant by saying ‘come out of the car' and cursing him.
The Dubai Court of First Instance will sentence 22-year-old M.B. (who is on bail) in absentia next month because he was absent when Presiding Judge Al Saeed Mohammad Barghout called on his name to level charges. The merchant H.S. claimed in his statement: "I was waiting for my wife to come out from one of the villas in Al Rashidiya… the suspect stopped his car behind mine and blew his horn repeatedly and annoyingly. Then he drove to the left of my car and I reversed my vehicle backwards to give him space to enter his house. We had a heated argument, then he rushed into his house and returned with a knife in his hands… he pointed at my face and cursed me."
The defendant's brother, who is a policeman, testified that he saw his brother threatening the merchant and his wife with a knife. A verdict will be heard in February.
