Dubai court stiffens term to life from 15 years

The Dubai Court of Appeal stiffened the sentence given against a Filipino who killed a businesswoman and kept her body in her car in Sharjah, to life in jail from 15 years in prison awarded to him by the First Instance Court.

Last November, RA, businessman, was found guilty by the Criminal Court of First Instance of dragging by a leg into his house a businesswoman with whom he had financial dispute, stabbing and killing her and sentenced him to 15 years in jail for premeditated murder. The Appeal Court has now stiffened the sentence to life jail term because of the circumstances of the crime and the brutality of the murder.

According to the records, after the convict pulled the victim into his house, he stabbed her and threw her down from the first floor. He then went down and stabbed her again as she was not dead. Then he put her body in the rear trunk of her Jaguar car and drove the vehicle to his other flat where he had lunch with his wife before proceeding to Sharjah where he left the car and the body in the industrial area with blood dripping from the rear trunk.

The 49-year-old convict could not finish lunch with his wife as he was tense, thinking how to get rid of the body.  While driving to Sharjah he bought some Indian food and a box of cheap cigarettes and threw them in the car to divert suspicion away from him and to show investigators that the killer was an Indian.

When he reached Industrial area No. 11, he thought of breaking the light inside the car so he took a cement block from the area with which he broke the light, left the car there and took a taxi home.

In coordination with Sharjah police, the victim’s Jaguar was found in the emirate’s industrial area. An awful smell was coming from the car’s rear trunk drops of blood underneath it. Police opened the trunk and found the decomposed body of a woman in her fifties.

The car with the body was craned by a police recovery vehicle and transported. The body was referred for autopsy to determine the cause of death. 

The victim’s 65-year-old husband, BHF, a company manager, had reported her as missing to the police as he did not find her at home when he returned. He first asked their daughter about the whereabouts of her mother. He also asked some friends and as he did not get any answer, he informed the police on the following day.

“Police told me that they would wait for 48 hours before registering a missing complaint. On August 29, Rashidiyia police station called and asked me about a number of people who had business ties with my wife and asked me about the reason why my wife went to Sharjah. I had no answer,” he testified.

Husband’s suspicions

The husband suspected RAB whom he accidently met and asked him if he had seen his wife. “He did not look surprised by my question nor about her going missing. His reaction was not like anyone who may receive such news. He looked as if he knew her whereabouts,” the husband said.

He immediately informed the police about his suspicions. Two days later, the husband received a call from Sharjah police who asked him if RAB had any financial disputes with his wife.

“I answered them yes and told them that he was not paying his dues and as a guarantee my wife had his passport to force him to pay. The husband guided police to RAB’s house and he was arrested, after police waited for three hours below the building where he stayed in Dubai’s Muraqqabat area, as he came down the building with his wife.

“We found in his house the same brand of cigarette that we found in the victim’s car. Moreover, suspicions grew about him as we found with him his passport that the victim’s husband had seen with his wife a day before she went missing. She was keeping it with her as a guarantee for making him pay his debt. We also found out that he was one of those who called her on her mobile before she went missing,” Captain Mohammed Ali testified.

Emotional impulse

RAB initially denied killing the victim but admitted killing her five hours after his arrest. “She destroyed me and my family’s life because of her financial demands. My children were pulled out of school as I was unable to pay their tuition fees. I was very angry with her and wanted to kill her two weeks earlier.

“I convinced her that a Korean is willing to do business with her and that he will buy my debts. She agreed to meet him and so I pretended the meeting will be in my flat in Karama on August 26.. We had a heated argument before I went to the kitchen and took a knife with which I stabbed her after she tried to pull it away from my hand.

“While trying to pull the knife from my hand, her palm was wounded and she screamed loudly. I pulled the knife and stabbed her in her belly. The stab was not deep as she was standing near the open window. I thought of killing her by throwing her from the first floor and so I did. I rushed down and when I saw that she was still alive, I stabbed her in her chest. I went to her car and drove to where her body was lying. I carried her body and put it in the rear trunk. I drove the car to my other flat in Murraqqabat and took lunch with my wife.

 “As I was tense, I did not finish my food and went down and drove the car, thinking how to get rid of the body. I drove to Sharjah Industrial Area No. 11 and there I left the car. On my way, I thought that I should divert suspicion away from me, so I bought Indian food and  a box of cheap cigarettes and threw them in her car. Before leaving the car I broke with a piece of brick the centre-up light and the electric wires and then left the car. Then I took a cab home,” he confessed.

Forensic reported that the cause of death was a deep wound the victim sustained in her chest that destroyed her lung and caused internal bleeding. The fall from the window was also fatal as she sustained severe fractures and bleeding of her internal organs.
 

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