2 pimps jailed for killing client over prostitutes

dubai — Two Vietnamese men, both on visit visas, who stabbed to death — together with a runaway suspect — a Pakistani man were each jailed for three years on Monday. The incident occurred following a fight over his harassment of a prostitute in their massage–business flat.

The two men, both aged 32, were found guilty by the Court of First Instance of charges of murder and using their flat in International City as a brothel by distributing massage business cards and inviting men over to have sex with prostitutes.

Three Pakistanis, who are the victim’s friends, were each sentenced to two months in jail and ordered to pay Dh1,000 in fines each on the charge of physically assaulting the two main accused.

The court ordered that all of them be deported after completing the court sentences.

“We were informed about a stabbing incident in the Moroccan cluster at 5 pm on July 6, 2016. When we reached the place, we found a man lying on his back covered with blood. His friends were around him and one of them was taken to hospital because he was stabbed in the leg,” a police lieutenant said.

The victim’s friends told the police they had gone with him to the flat where massage services were available, after they found a business card bearing the one of the Vietnamese accused’s number. “The victim told them that he had an altercation with that man the day before, regarding the women, and that the man had assaulted him prior to the incident day,” the officer added.

The police apprehended the two Vietnamese the following day in Oud Al Mutteena.

“One of them said that he was in his flat when he saw a Pakistani man throwing his shoe at the window. He went downstairs and there, the Pakistani defendants tried to assault him. He ran upstairs and the other men followed him and tried to break open the flat’s door, at which point he called his friend,” the lieutenant told the prosecutor.

“The Vietnamese and his friends then went downstairs carrying knives. A fight broke out, in which he stabbed one of the Pakistanis in the chest and his friend stabbed another in the leg.”