Man assaulted woman in street, causing her death

A 23-year-old jobless Emirati, AAM, allegedly assaulted a woman in the street and caused her death, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

He is also accused of molesting her friend in the street.

AWJ, 28, Kenyan, testified that on February 18, she left the Crown Plaza Hotel with her friends SW and the deceased AW, heading for the parking lot of the hotel at around 3.30am.

“Two men, one of whom was wearing blue jeans, a cap, and a dark jacket came close to us and groped by lower back and as I turned he groped my breast also. When I shouted at him, he said “You are black like me and black people do such stuff.” His friend apologised saying that he is drunk. As I was heading towards my car talking on the phone, I heard my friend shouting. I turned back to see the same man punching my friend on her head several times and after she fell on the ground he kicked her head badly. I rushed towards her and other people gathered and controlled the attacker who raged and assaulted the people. When the hotel’s security staff arrived, he and his friend ran away from the scene. I gave police their car number,” she testified assuring that  neither she nor the victim abused the man.

The woman fell unconscious and was admitted to the ICU in Rashid Hospital and was announced dead two days later.

SW, 29, visitor, repeated the same testimony.

Security staffer Husam Mohammed testified that the attacker ran away with his friends when they saw the security staff. “We reported the incident to the police and gave the number of their car.”

Forensic doctor Ashraf Ibrahim, 36, Egyptian, testified that the victim sustained fatal head injuries, fracture of the skull and internal bleeding that could have happened due to her head hitting the ground. A shoe alone cannot cause such an injury and the accused did not have a wooden or steel tool with him.

The court will reconvene on June 28.

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