Dubai: A man has been accused of stabbing his friend 35 times and killing him for unknown reasons before calling up the victim’s brother to tell him what had happened.
The 23-year-old Iranian man, A.H., was said to have repeatedly stabbed his countryman friend in the upper part of his body and killed him in a flat that they shared in Satwa in March 2014.
A.H. then ran away from the murder scene, according to records, and called up the victim’s brother in Iran to notify him that he had killed his brother and was waiting for someone from their [brothers] clan to kill him in revenge.
Prosecutors accused A.H. of intentional murder.
Dubai Police’s forensic examiner said the victim sustained several cuts in both his arms as he fought back his assailant [A.H.] and tried to fend the knife attacks.
He died of fatal stabs in his neck, head, chest and abdomen, according to the examiner.
Jail wardens did not bring the accused from his detention and produce him before the Dubai Court of First Instance where he was scheduled to enter a plea on Wednesday.
According to the accusation sheet, prosecutors said the defendant stabbed the victim 35 times and intended to kill him.
The victim’s elder brother told prosecutors that he learnt about the crime from the defendant himself.
“I was in Iran when A.H. contacted me and told me that he killed my brother … he told me that now he would be waiting for someone from our clan to go and kill him in revenge. He asked me to come to Dubai and meet him at his detention. I flew in to Dubai and visited him at the police station where he was detained … when I asked him why he had killed my brother, he did not respond. However he expressed his resentment for what he had done,” the brother testified to prosecutors.
A police lieutenant told prosecutors that police found the victim’s body in a pool of blood in the corridor on the second floor of a building.
“The deceased seemed on his 20s and we found him face down. His hands were so close to his head that had too many knife wounds. Blood covered the walls and the floor,” he testified.
Presiding judge Fahd Al Shamsi adjourned the case until the defendant is brought from his detention on August 7.
Court records showed that the case was handled first by the Dubai Misdemeanours Court before it was later transferred to the Court of First Instance.
