'Djinn' possessed Wadeema, says father

The father, who was awarded a death penalty for causing the death of his daughter Wadeema and torturing the other daughter and causing her 10 per cent permanent disability, claimed before the Court of Appeal that his daughter was possessed by a 'djin'.

He also claimed that statements had been ignored by the Prosecution and the lower Court.

The Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance awarded HSJ, 29, security supervisor, death penalty for confining and causing the death of his 8-year old daughter and torturing his other 7-year old daughter Mira, with the help of his mistress AMA, 27. She was awarded life in jail by the same Court in February.

The two convicts pleaded not guilty before the Appeal Court and denied the accusation of ill-treating the two sisters, torturing them, and confining them in the washroom without food, and keeping them locked in the flat for six months.

The father asked the presiding judge Mahmoud Fahmi Sultan for permission to address the Court. The judge permitted him and he went on talking in a tense way blaming the lower court and the prosecution for ignoring statements and testimonies and exaggerating what had happened describing the alignment sheet and the Court’s hearings as a scene fit to be a movie.

“Wadeema was possessed by Jinni… her younger sister realised that she had a man’s voice when she talked… I told that to the Prosecutors but they made fun of me,” the father told the Court.

However, the convict admitted that his mistress burnt the younger girl but insisted that it was only once. He cast the accusation of burning the two girls on his ex-wife, the mother of the two girls, when they were in her custody.

He told the jury that he loved his daughters and presented the court with their pictures when he took them to hotels and public places as proof that he took good care of them.

“Mira told my brother that I loved them and treated them well and did not hurt them at all and my brother admitted that in his testimony. I wonder why the court did not take his statement into consideration and why Mira’s love statement turned later into hatred as she expressed in a YouTube asking for a just punishment. There is no child on the Earth of her age who knows what just punishment means,” he said implying to someone influenced the little girl and changed her love into hatred.

The convict accused investigators of lying under oath before the lower Court. He told the Appeal Court that investigators claimed the house was not valid for human living and that the two girls were not provided with care. “How come they did not mention the good food… the nuts… the cake and the sweets? Not everything was rotten as they said.

”He also denied the accusation that he caused permanent disability to Mira saying that when she got injured, he rushed her to the hospital. He blamed the doctors for failing to fix the cast properly to her arm.

He also claimed that the forensic examiner’s statement was full of contradictions.

Defending his mistress, who had admitted to the accusations before the lower Court, HJS said that her confession was due to the impact of pregnancy on her emotions.

“Consult any doctor who would confirm that pregnancy affects a pregnant woman’s emotional state… she was suffering when she made confession before investigators and the lower court,” he said.

In his opinion, the affirmative witnesses made inconsistent testimonies before the lower Court.

The Court adjourned the case until April 14 for lawyers to submit their defence.

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