Death penalty for brothers for killing brother-in-law

dubai — Two Pakistani brothers, who murdered a man for marrying their sister without consent, were sentenced to death on Wednesday.

The Court of First Instance convicted them of the premeditated murder of their brother-in-law and the ruling remains subject to appeal.

One of them, a 34-year-old, killed the Pakistani victim after luring him to a sandy yard in Satwa, where he beat him up and strangled him with a plastic rope. He was charged in absentia with premeditated murder.

The other, a 26-year-old working as a driver, denied in court an aiding and abetting charge by planning the murder in revenge against the victim, who married their sister against their family’s will.

According to prosecution records, the eldest brother fled the UAE about six hours before the crime was discovered.

A police lieutenant said that the

The victim’s brother said that he suspected the two brothers as they held grudges against the victim for his marriage with their sister. “

A police lieutenant’s testimony

taxi company, for which the victim worked, reported a missing case with the Dubai Police as he failed to give back his car and was unreachable on his phone.

The police found his car with his body inside, shortly later, by tracking the device installed in the cab.

“The victim’s brother said that he suspected the two brothers as they held grudges against the victim for his marriage to their sister. The victim had lots of problems back in his home country because of that,” the lieutenant said.

The victim’s brother added that the victim told him about being contacted by the runaway accused the day before the crime and was to meet him in Satwa to work out their differences.

“Later that day, the victim’s brother tried to call him several times but could not reach him,” the officer said. The lieutenant said they learnt that the first accused left the country through the Dubai International Airport.

“We arrested the other brother in the same area of the murder. He confessed he knew that his brother was the perpetrator of the crime.

He told us that there was a dispute between his family and the victim as the latter convinced their sister to elope with him and marry him after the family did not approve,” the lieutenant told the prosecutor.

He confessed that the plan was to kill the victim in their home country, but his brother killed him in Dubai without telling him, the officer said.

The forensic expert from Dubai Police said he examined the body around 10pm on November 19, 2014, at the crime scene.

“The injury marks found on the victim’s neck showed he died of strangulation with a plastic rope. The dirt on the body and on the back seat was a reason to believe he was killed outside of the vehicle and was then pulled inside,” the expert said.

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