Dubai: A chief prosecutor on Monday described a man accused of kidnapping, raping and killing an eight-year-old boy as “a monster” who doesn’t deserve to live in UAE society and deserves the death punishment.
The 49-year-old Jordanian suspect, Nidal Eisa Abdullah, admitted before the Dubai Court of First Instance in an previous hearing that he raped and murdered the Jordanian boy, Obaida Sedqi.
Abdullah claimed the boy willingly sat with him in his car “like he usually did” and denied kidnapping the victim from his father’s garage in Sharjah on May 20.
“Following this horrendous crime, our children, parents and all member of the society were petrified. We were heart-broken due to what had happened to the angel ‘Obaida’. The suspect himself is a father … where were his fatherly feelings when he committed such an atrocious act? The suspect is a monster who does not deserve to live among us … he doesn’t deserve to live in this society. He deserves to be sentenced to death,” argued Chief Prosecutor Dr Ali Al Hosani as he presented Dubai Public Prosecution’s verbal argument before presiding judge Urfan Omar in court on Monday.
Obaida’s soul won’t rest in peace and will only rest in peace after the kidnapper, rapist and killer is sentenced to death because “that’s the punishment he deserves”, said Dr Al Hosani before a fully-packed courtroom.
“It was a holy night [Hag Al Laila] during a holy month [Shaaban] while everybody was busy performing their religious rituals and celebrating that special night … meanwhile Abdullah decided to commit a crime that shook the UAE community. Everybody was petrified and influenced by that alien crime. An innocent child had to pay the price of that man’s [pointing at the suspect inside the dock] viciousness and inhumanity. He drank alcohol. Kidnapped the innocent angel … raped him and killed him. He deceived a harmless soul and tempted him with cartoons on YouTube when he lured him to his vehicle … he drove to Al Mamzar in Dubai after he claimed to the victim that he would buy him a scooter. The father did not want to buy a scooter for his son because it is dangerous … yet the defendant enticed the boy when he promised to buy him one. Instead, he raped him and then killed him,” said the chief prosecutor.
The last time the father saw Obaida alive was in Abdullah’s car at 5pm shortly before the latter had decided to kidnap and rape the eight-year-old, he added.
“The suspect had been imbibing alcohol uncontrollably … when he raped the boy he did not care for Obaida’s cries of pain and fear. When the victim threatened to inform his father about what had happened to him, Abdullah decided to kill him. He strangled him first with his hands … he strangled him violently for five minutes. Obaida tried to resist as much as possible and left some scratch marks on the suspect’s body. Abdullah then torn apart some of the suspect’s clothes … the latter then strangled the boy with a gotra for two minutes. Later he got rid of the body out of fear of being exposed … but thanks to God and to the vigilance of law enforcement officer, the defendant was apprehended. He pleaded guilty during prosecution questioning,” concluded Dr Al Hosani.
