Angry Dubai maid hammered employer's wife on her head

A 28-year-old Indonesian maid, angry that her employer intended to cancel her visa, is accused of attempting to kill her employer by hitting her head and body with a hammer, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

On November 19, when her employer was sleeping alone in her bedroom, the accused BAD hit her head and body with a hammer. The victim resisted the attack and managed to throw the hammer away from the hand of her attacker. Her husband then came into the house and rushed his wife to the hospital.

The victim YAS, 33, Jordanian housewife, testified that on the day of the crime, at around 7am she woke up and prepared her three-year-old son to go to the nearby school.

“My husband took our son to the school and when they left I went back to my bedroom to sleep. I was lying on my right side from where I could not see the door. I felt that someone had entered the room. I thought it was my husband returning to pick up something he had forgotten.

“Suddenly, I received a strong hit on my head. I turned back and I got more hits on my head. It was the maid who was hammering my head and body. I tried to resist her but she dragged me to the corner of the room and hammered my head and body several times. One of the hits was on my jaw. I was screaming of in pain. She held my neck in her grip and tried to suffocate me to prevent me from screaming.

“Then my one-year-old daughter woke up and I was frightened that the maid may hurt her. I tried to drag her out of the room and succeeded. When we reached near the kitchen, I snatched the hammer away from her hand and threw it into the kitchen. She used her grip to suffocate me again.Then my husband returned, caught here and dragged her out of the house. My neighbour who heard my screams entered the house. My husband called the police and ambulance,” she testified.

Asked why the maid assaulted her, YAS answered that the maid may have overheard a conversation between the couple about her visa cancellation.

“The night before, I was talking with my husband about the cancellation of the maid’s visa and recruitment of another maid. He was to apply for visa for a new maid on the day of the attack. I told my husband that the maid wanted to continue with us and did not want her visa to be cancelled and to return home,” she testified.

Her husband, AMM, 35, Jordanian sales manager, testified that it took him about 20 minutes to drop his three-year-old son at the school and return home.

“When I returned home, I heard my wife was screaming. Entering the house, I saw my wife was bleeding and the maid was trying to suffocate her. They were in the corridor between the bedroom and the kitchen. I caught the maid and pulled her out of the house. Some neighbour called the police. We were intending to cancel her visa as my wife was not satisfied with her performance,” he testified.

The family’s compatriot neighbor, RNO, 36, testified that she rushed out of her house as she heard YAS screaming.

“Initially, I thought that the couple was fighting until I heard the crash of a body on the wall. I rushed out of my house and then I saw the husband dragging the maid out of the flat. He told me that the maid had attacked his wife with a hammer. I rushed in and saw the wife was bleeding and had a fracture on her jaw and was unable to talk or drink water. She had scratches on her face. Then I left the scene as I had to drop my children to school,” she testified.

Another neighbour, AAH, 34, Libyan, testified that she at around 7.25am she rushed out of her house and saw other neighbours crowding in front of the victim’s flat and the husband was holding their maid. “I was told that the maid had attacked the wife,” she testified.

The victim was rushed to Rashid Hospital where she was operated to fix her jaw and received treatments for other wounds and scratches.

Forensic reported that the victim had been hit on her head.

The accused confessed to bringing the hammer from the kitchen and hitting the victim’s head and body.

The court will reconvene on April 1.
 

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