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28 March 2024

Ras Al Khaimah killer housemaid to be executed

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A criminal court in Ras Al Khaimah sentenced an Ethiopian housemaid to death after she was convicted of murdering her Moroccan employer and her three-year-old daughter, newspapers reported on Thursday.

The court found S. Burhanu, 23, guilty of stabbing the 35-year-old Moroccan woman to death nearly 100 times before she set the woman and her little daughter on fire at their house in the northern city, they said.

The court issued its sentence after the maid was found guilty of premeditated murder of the mother and her daughter and stealing her jewelry in August 2010, the report said, adding that the maid would be executed by a firing squad.

The judge had earlier sent to the maid to hospital to check her mental condition and examination later showed she was normal.

Burhanu, attacked her employer with a kitchen knife following an argument during which the Moroccan woman threatened to expel the maid. She stabbed her more than 70 times before she turned her upside down and continue stabbing her in the back.

She then dragged her employer into the bedroom and set her on fire while her 30-month-old daughter was sleeping. The Moroccan woman succumbed to her wounds and burns while her baby died of asphyxia.

The maid had confessed to police that she killed the mother and her daughter and that she locked the burning bed room before fleeing with some jewelry to Sharjah, where she stayed at a friend.

Burhanu had come to the UAE in 2009 and worked for two different families before absconding to Ras Al-Khaimah, where she was employed by the victim for just one week.