Street robbers duff up labourer with iron rods

Hamza M Sengendo, Staff Reporter

Two members of a gang of street robbers who attacked a pedestrian at night with iron rods have been referred to the Dubai Criminal Court.

The Asian dyer, 27, and tiler, 44, with the help of fugitive accomplices intercepted and thumped the Bangladeshi labourer, 32, with iron rods at a street in Al Muhaisna area at around 1am on Mar.28.

They decamped with his wallet containing two Nol cards, Dhs1,370 and a mobile phone. Both denied in court on May 28. The duo denies the robbery. The court has set Jul.2 to find a defence lawyer.

The labourer narrated that he went to visit a friend in Al Muhaisna. On his way home, he walked by a company’s barracks and saw six men including the above duo. They called upon him and he responded.

One of them told him to hand over his mobile phone. He refused. All of a sudden, they pulled out metallic rods and started whacking him, coupled with a barrage of punches. They forcibly took the phone.

“They also snatched my wallet containing the cash and two Nol cards that I was using on public buses and fled,” he complained, adding that a passerby who found him languishing helped contact the police.

During prosecution investigations, the labourer recognised the dyer as one of the men who hit him with metallic rods and the tiler as one of those who rained punches on him. Four others went on the run.

The labourer complained that he sustained injuries on various parts on his body. He ended up in Rashid Hospital.

A Bahraini police corporal testified that the Al Qusais Police Station’s criminal investigations management dispatched him to the scene following an alert that a labourer was beaten and robbed.

“The labourer managed to notice the dyer and the tiler. He directed us to their residence. The dyer upon arrest said it was the tiler who assaulted him. The tiler denied completely.”