UAE: DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER OF YOUTH UPHELD

The Fujairah Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s ruling sentencing a UAE national to death for stabbing a stateless man to death.
The court also ordered the convict to be given 80 lashes for consuming alcohol.
The Appellate Court ruling was issued by Presiding Judge Ali Al Naqbi.
The victim’s family had insisted on imposing death penalty on the defendant.
The incident happened in mid-February in 2012. The victim, Y.M.G, a stateless man in his 20s, who did not have identification papers then, was admitted in the Dibba-Fujairah hospital with a deep stab wound in the chest. He succumbed to the injury later.
The investigation team of the Fujairah Police suspected the involvement of a 24-year-old Emirati, identified as M.M.A.
The investigation showed that M.M.A. and the victim were at the same hotel in Dibba-Fujairah at the time of the crime. The team found out that the two had got into a brawl and M.M.A. stabbed YM.G., causing a severe wound in the chest.