Woman accused of killing ‘pimp’

Dubai: A woman has been accused of intentionally killing a man, whom she claimed to be her pimp, after he beat her because one of his prostitutes ran away.

The 25-year-old Bangladeshi woman, N.B., was said to have had a heated argument with the Asian man, F.S., who had been drinking liquor, before the latter assaulted her after a prostitute ran away from the flat in August.

Records said F.S. told her that she had to pay him Dh6,000 after the other prostitute ran away and that she had to sleep with men to earn back her Dh6,000. When he asked to have sex with her, according to prosecution records, N.B. refused to allow him and she grabbed her mobile and called the police.

A 28-year-old Bangladeshi man, H.S., and his countrywoman, M.B., were present when the incident happened in the flat in Al Muraqqabat.

After the victim assaulted N.B., H.S. gave her a knife and told her to kill F.S.

Prosecutors accused N.B. of intentionally stabbing F.S. in his thigh and killing him. She and M.B. were charged with prostitution.

Meanwhile H.S. and M.S. were accused of aiding and abetting N.B. and running the flat as a brothel.

The defendants pleaded not guilty and denied all their accusations before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Monday.

Dubai Police’s forensic examiner told prosecutors the victim sustained severe knife cuts in the main veins and arteries of his left thigh before he succumbed to the severe bleeding.

An Iranian witness claimed to prosecutors that a woman [N.B.] knocked on his door at 5am wanting to enter his flat and hide from the police.

“Her clothes were soaked with blood … I prevented her from entering my flat. I walked out of my flat and saw blood stains all around the walls and the stairway. I went to the next floor and found blood stains on the door of flat number 4. Then I knocked on my neighbour’s door [flat 3] and he called the police,” he claimed.

A police lieutenant testified to prosecutors that primary investigations revealed the involvement of N.B. and another man [A.H.] in the killing.

“A.H. was arrested two days later. Further questioning revealed that he was present in the flat but he ran away once the fight between N.B. and F.S. started. He did not witness the stabbing incident. The 28-year-old woman was arrested in Al Ain. During questioning, she claimed that the victim had convinced her to leave her sponsor’s house in Abu Dhabi where she had been working as a maid. Then he made her work for him in prostitution until the other prostitute ran away. She alleged that F.S. asked her pay him Dh6,000 and told her that she had to sleep with men until she earned that amount. N.B. further alleged that after the victim assaulted her when she called the police … H.S. handed her a knife that she used to stab F.S. in his leg,” claimed the lieutenant.

The trial continues.