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29 March 2024

AIDS victim tries to infect other inmates

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A Gulf prisoner suffering from AIDS tried to transfer the killer disease to other inmates at a Dubai jail by mixing his blood with the tea to be served for nearly 40 prisoners.

The prison’s cook was making his routine tour to distribute meals to the prisoners when the ill inmate, identified as HMM, asked him to quickly call a policeman, claiming he was threatened by other inmates. He asked him to leave the food trolley near his cell.

“The cook said he rushed to call a policeman after he saw that the inmate was serious and much worried…he said that when he returned, he saw the inmate mixing his blood with the tea in the pot,” Emirat Alyoum daily said.

It quoted police and prison guards as saying the infected inmate hurt his hand with the pot handle before adding his blood to the tea, which was to be served to 40 inmates.

“The inmate then tried to commit suicide but prison guards overpowered him…he was later sent to the criminal court, where the prosecutor accused him of endangering the lives of other inmates,” the paper said.