Sharjah: A Kuwaiti student has escaped the death penalty after his victim’s family pardoned him on Tuesday morning.
The ruling was announced by the Sharjah Appeal Court on Tuesday.
Another Kuwaiti student was also sentenced to death in the case but he did not receive a pardon from the family of the victim.
A third student involved in the beating of the dead victim was fined Dh1,000 earlier in absentia.
The two Kuwaiti students have already spent more than two years in jail for their part in the death of Mubarak Mesha’al Mubarak, 19, a unversity student in Sharjah who died at University City Hospital on February 24, 2013, following several days of physical abuse, said police.
The verdict is expected to be final as the victim’s family’s signed a paper pardoning the suspect, a prosecutor told Gulf News.
The parents of the victim as well as the family members of the pardoned Kuwaiti attended the session.
The decision is a reversal of earlier circumstances when the Kuwaiti victim’s family asked the judge to give the duo the death sentence. They told Gulf News earlier they would never pardon the killers.
The verdict was issued by Judge Hussain Al Assofi on Tuesday morning.
