Dubai: A security guard has been accused of headbutting his co-worker and fracturing his nose while they scuffled over what the former saw as the bullying of a four-year-old boy at Dubai Cargo Village.
The 27-year-old Kenyan guard, J.W. was said to have assaulted his Pakistani colleague, A.K., when the latter refused to stop playing with the four-year-old boy in January.
Prosecutors accused J.W. of beating A.K. and causing a three per cent permanent disability to his nose.
The defendant entered a guilty plea when he showed up before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Monday.
“Yes I headbutted him,” he told presiding judge Ali Abdul Wahhab in court.
The 25-year-old Pakistani co-worker testified to prosecutors that he was entertaining the boy, who is the son of the mosque’s imam at Cargo Village, when the suspect assaulted him.
“The imam’s son came towards me and I was entertaining and playing games with him like I always do. J.W. walked towards me and asked me to stop playing with the boy. When I tried to caress the boy’s cheek, the suspect pulled him away and slapped my hand … he reprimanded me. His reaction surprised me because we are friends. When I asked him why he did that, he told me not to play with the boy. Then I explained to him that the child is used to that. The suspect then told me in a challenging tone ‘touch him and see what I will do to you’. I ignored him but I heard him murmuring while walking away ‘Pakistanis are crazy’. I replied ‘it’s the Kenyans who are crazy’. Then I turned towards the boy and caressed his cheek again … the suspect came towards me. We came face-to-face before he headbutted me. Our colleague came and pulled us away from each other … I bled from my nose and I realised that it was fractured,” the 25-year-old claimed.
A policeman testified to prosecutors that the defendant told him that he headbutted his co-worker because the child cried when the latter was playing with him.
The defendant was quoted telling prosecutors that he assaulted his colleague to stop him harming the boy, who was crying.
A ruling will be heard on June 18.
