Dubai: A security guard told a court on Sunday that he stabbed his roommate to death intentionally but denied having plotted in advance to kill the victim in December.
The 45-year-old Egyptian security guard, S.Y., was said to have been under the impression that his Nepalese roommate had sexually abused him when he was asleep a few days before he killed him with a kitchen knife in their flat in Al Nahda.
“I stabbed him … but a week before the incident, I did not have plans in advance to kill him. There was no enmity between us. It just happened,” argued S.Y. as he entered a guilty plea before the Dubai Court of First Instance.
“What were your exact intentions at the time when you stabbed the victim? Did you intend to end his life?” presiding judge Mohammad Jamal asked the suspect.
“Yes, I intended to kill him … but I did not plan that earlier. It happened right then,” the suspect replied.
According to the charge sheet, prosecutors said the defendant had plotted in advance to kill the Nepalese victim due to an earlier dispute between them.
S.Y. was filled with a grudge when he planned in advance, according to prosecution records, to kill the victim before he took advantage of the fact that they were alone in the flat and stabbed the victim while he was busy using his tablet.
Dubai police’s forensic examiner said the deceased succumbed to several knife cuts in his chest and belly.
A Nepalese waitress claimed to prosecutors that she was in her flat [the same building where the incident happened] when she heard loud noises and cries for help out in the corridor.
“My flatmate and I rushed out to see what had happened. The victim, who was our workmate, lived in the adjacent flat that was rented by our employer. The next flat’s door was open … when we looked inside, we saw the victim on the floor in a pool of blood. There was blood on the door as well. We shouted loudly until our workmates from other flats rushed to see what had happened. We went back to our flat and police were summoned to the scene. Later we were told that S.Y. had stabbed the deceased,” she testified.
A police lieutenant testified to prosecutors that the suspect was apprehended inside the flat where he had stayed following the incident.
“During questioning, S.Y. admitted that he had stabbed the victim with a knife that he took from the kitchen. He gave different statements and several reasons why he had stabbed the victim … but he claimed that it was due to a previous dispute. He also alleged that he smoked a cigarette after he stabbed the victim. The suspect further claimed that he decided to kill the victim two days before the incident and that he had intended to kill him … he also claimed that, had he had the chance, he would have decapitated him after suspecting that the deceased had sexually abused him [S.Y.] while sleeping some time before the incident,” claimed the lieutenant.
The Egyptian suspect requested to be referred to a hospital for mental examination.
Presiding judge Jamal said the court will appoint a lawyer to defend him when it reconvenes on February 28.
