Sharjah: Sharjah Police on Thursday offered condolences to the family of eight-year-old Jordanian boy Obaida Ebrahim Sedqi Al Aqrabawi who, authorities say, was strangled by a 48-year-old man.
Authorities contend the boy was killed after he resisted an attempt to rape him.
A delegation comprising various Sharjah Police officials visited the family to offer their heartfelt condolences.
Those in the delegation included Brigadier Saif Ziri Al Shamisi, Sharjah Police commander-in-chief, Colonel Ali Saif Al Nadas, director of Community Police Department, and Lieutenant Colonel Yousuf Bin Harmoul, deputy director of police stations as well as Sharjah Police task force officials.
Dubai Police found Obaida’s body in Al Warqa’a area on May 22, prompting an investigation which led to the arrest of suspect Nidal Eisa Abdullah Abu Ali, a Jordanian, on Monday.
The case has been transferred to the public prosecution.
Obaida was reported missing on May 20 from his home in Sharjah’s Industrial Area 8 where his father, Ebrahim Al Aqrabawi, runs a car repair workshop on the ground floor of the building where the family lives.
The suspect, who had been a customer at the workshop, was a frequent visitor for three weeks before the abduction and had befriended Obaida, the boy’s mother told Gulf News.
Abu Ali apparently confessed to the police that on Friday he had visited the workshop and invited Obaida to watch a cartoon in his borrowed vehicle and, subsequently, abducted him and attempted to molest the boy.
When Obaida resisted his advances and threatened to tell his father, Abu Ali strangled the boy.
