QATAR: WOMAN ESCAPES DEATH SENTENCE AFTER BLOOD MONEY ACCEPTED

an expatriate woman facing the firing squad for stabbing her housemaid to death was pardoned after the deceased’s family accepted blood money. She will now be sentenced to 15 years in jail. The woman is pregnant and in her early thirties. Police found the maid lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen near a knife and an ash tray. The medical report suggested that the maid had been tortured with burns and beatings. The nationality of the woman was not revealed.