Dubai maid stabs woman for snatching boyfriend

A Nepali housemaid allegedly attempted to kill a Sri Lankan woman in the stairwell of a building they live in a dispute over a man, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

The accused, DM, 28, accompanied with another woman, hid a knife under her clothes and went down the building in Dubai Silicon Oasis waiting for the victim to return home.

“On April 2, I returned to the building at around 5.30pm,” said the 32-year old victim identified as NS, cleaner.

In front of the building, a compatriot maid who works for a family in the same building approached the victim and asked her for her mobile phone.

“When I refused to give it to her, she sprayed pepper powder at my eyes, pulled my hair and dragged me into the building’s lift while covering my mouth. They pressed the eighth floor button and started beating me up and biting my hands.

“The lift’s door opened. The two attackers pulled me into the stair well where DM pulled out a big knife from under her dress and started stabbing me in my head, belly, arm and chest. I shouted and screamed for help but nobody came to help me. I pushed the two women away with all my strength and ran towards the seventh floor. I knocked at a door but nobody opened. Then I rushed to my house and called my sponsor and told him about the attack before I fell unconscious,” the victim told investigators.

Policeman Taher Mohammed was rushed to the scene of the crime and he reported seeing blood stains in the seventh floor corridor and in front of the victim’s flat. The victim woke up and told police about the identity of the attackers who were her neighbours. Police knocked on the door of one of the attackers.

“DM opened the door while her dress was stained with blood. She admitted to stabbing the victim as the latter had snatched her Pakistani boyfriend from her,” testified the policeman.

Police also arrested the other woman identified as ‘N’ who worked as a maid for a family living on the fifth floor.

“At the time of her arrest she was down the building with the daughter of her employer,” testified the policeman.

The records said that the two accused were handed over to women police officers and also said ‘N’ was DM’s partner in the crime.

The forensic lab reported that the victim’s stab wounds were in fatal places.

The Prosecution accused DM of premeditated murder attempt. The Court will reconvene on December 12.
 

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