Man jailed, fined Dhs2,000 for stabbing roommate

Mohammed Yaseen, Staff Reporter

The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced an Asian to six months in jail to be followed by deportation and fined him Dhs2,000 on charges of stabbing his roommate twice in the abdomen and chest in a labour accommodation in Al Quoz Industrial Area.

The case dates back to July last year when an Asian worker filed a complaint in which he stated that his co-worker in a labour accommodation had been stabbed by another co-worker staying in the same place.

The complainant stated that he saw the defendant stabbing his co-worker with a knife as soon as the latter went out of his room.

The drunk defendant stabbed the victim twice before he and several other people who were at the scene managed to grab the defendant away from the victim, call an ambulance and report what happened to the police, the complainant said during the interrogations.

A policeman stated in the interrogations that he went to the labour accommodation, where he saw the victim bleeding inside the ambulance while the paramedics were providing medical services to save him.

He also saw the defendant inside his room, where he could smell alcoholic beverages, he said, adding that the defendant was arrested.

On interrogation, the defendant admitted that he stabbed the victim after the latter and a number of roommates assaulted him and tried to expel him from the front side of their room, so he decided to take revenge.

The defendant confessed to having stabbed the victim as soon as he went out of his room with a knife that he was using for cutting vegetables. He, however, denied his intention to kill the victim, pleading that he was only trying to take revenge from the people who had previously assaulted him.

According to the forensic lab’s report, the injuries sustained by the victim as described in detail in the medical papers were caused by a solid object with a sharp edge and would need more than twenty days of medical treatment.