Dubai prosecutor seeks death for Pakistani woman who fatally stabbed man

A Pakistani woman will stand trial in Dubai for killing a man with the help of a friend and the prosecutor is demanding death punishment on premeditated murder, a newspaper said on Monday.

The 30-year-old woman confessed to murdering the man and said she had done this because he had insisted on having an affair with her. Police found out later the victim had reported the woman for giving him a dud cheque although she denied it.

The prosecutor was told the woman and another man who came to the UAE on a visit visa had lured the victim to come to a rented room in a villa in Rashidiya and stabbed him to death many times.

“The prosecution is demanding death punishment for the defendant on charges of premeditated murder,” prosecutor Yousuf Fouladh told the Dubai-based Arabic language daily Emirat Alyoum.

He said the woman committed the murder with the help of a friend who is still on the run, adding they also stole two mobile phones from the victim just after the murder.

The paper said the murder was discovered when the villa manager told the police that he had found a dead man in a room rented by the woman. He said he had given her the room’s key but that she told him she would pay Dh2,200 rent on the next day.

He said he met her on the next day at the airport at her request and that she asked him to lend her Dh300 after she paid all her money to a friend to deliver it to her sick mother at home.

“The man said she also asked him to use his mobile phone…in the evening, he tried to call her to get the money but found that she had deleted her contact number from his phone…he became suspicious and went straight to the room, broke the door and found the body.”

The paper quoted the prosecutor as saying the victim had filed a case that the woman had given him a dud cheque for Dh50,000 but that he later dropped the case. “She denied this and claimed he forged her signature to press her to have a relationship with her.”

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