Shepherd gets 10 years jail for killing compatriot

A Sudanese shepherd was awarded 10 years in jail for killing a compatriot by stabbing him with a knife over a financial dispute in the camel market on the Dubai-Al Ain road. SAS, 24, was also ordered to be deported after serving his jail term.

The prosecution has accused SAS of premeditatedly killing Mohammed Abbas Mohammed by stabbing him with a knife he pulled from his pocket after a financial dispute broke out while they were in the camel market. SAS admitted to killing Mohammed but denied that he had planned to murder him.

According to the records, Mohammed Omar Al Suddiq, 26, Sudanese shepherd, who was at the scene of the crime, testified that on December 9, 2011, he was in the camel market at Murghem. He saw the accused and the victim fighting. “I rushed to them to ask them to stop the fight. When I reached them, the victim fell on the ground bleeding heavily and the accused was standing next to him with a small knife in his hand.

“I took the knife from the accused and caught him. I put the dying victim’s head in my lap. Another shepherd Haidar Abdul Baqi rushed to the scene and we rushed the victim in Baqi’s vehicle to the main road until the ambulance arrived. Medical staff confirmed that the victim had died. There were two stabs on his body,” he testified.

Suddiq Mohammed Ali, 42, Sudanese shepherd, repeated the same testimony.

Haidar Abdul Baqi, 42, Sudanese driver, testified that he saw the victim lying on the ground bleeding. “I took victim in my car to the main road and waited for the ambulance. He had sustained two stabs near his heart and another near the belly,” he testified.

Sergeant Saeed Amer testified that while was patrolling on the Al Ain-Dubai road at the sixth intersection, he saw a group of Sudanese who told him that they had in their car a man who had been stabbed. “I notified the operations room and arrested the accused,” he testified.
Corporal Suhai Hai testified that the accused confessed to the crime but claimed that the victim had started the brawl and had beaten him with a steel bar which the police did not find at the scene of the crime. Police confiscated the knife which the accused use to cut things on the farm.

Forensic reported that the stab close to the heart was deep and caused the victim’s death. There were some minor wounds on his body and the mark of a human bite on the arm of the accused, indicating the attempts of the victim to defend himself.

Forensic denied the claim of the accused of being beaten by the victim with a steel bar or any other attack.

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