How a murder victim’s headless body was discovered in desert

dubai — A prosecution witness has described how the headless body of a Filipina domestic help was discovered in the Dubai desert, which resulted in the arrest of her killer three months after the murder.

The Abu Dhabi Criminal Court of First Instance heard that the Filipino accused had killed his aunt in the Musaffah area of Abu Dhabi over a debt of Dh10,000, which she had lent him to arrange his travel and work in the UAE.

After killing the woman, the man dumped her body parts in the desert areas of Dubai and Ajman to cover up his crime.

The victim, M.SD., worked as a domestic help for a family in Abu Dhabi. The murder was discovered on May 27, 2016, when a Dubai Municipality cleaner informed the police about a headless body found in a highly decomposed state.

On Thursday, a prosecution witness, the Deputy Director of the Criminal Investigation Department at the Dubai Police, told the court that the Filipina woman’s decomposed body was found in a very isolated place in Al Warqa’a on Academic City Road in September last year. “The headless body was found under a tree and in a very quiet place where there were no passersby,” said the officer.

“I rushed to the scene after getting information about a body that had been discovered in the desert. It was taken for forensic examination after the investigation team removed it.”

The officer said the woman’s other body parts were found buried in a desert in Ajman.

He added: “After the investigation team identified the murdered woman, the police obtained permission and arrested

(The accused) said he had convinced his aunt to get into the car and then drove her to a deserted area in Musaffah area as the pair argued over the money.” Police officer

the man suspected of killing the woman. “We arrested the suspect from his residence in the Abu Hail area of Dubai.”

Police investigations suggested that the defendant had borrowed Dh10,000 from the victim and killed her when she demanded her money back. The officer told the court that during the interrogation, the Filipino admitted to killing his aunt. He confessed to the Dubai Police that he took a cleaver and a knife from his home and drove his friend’s car to Abu Dhabi where he met her.

“He said he had convinced the woman to get into the car and then drove her to a deserted area in Musaffah as the pair argued over the money,” said the police officer. “He said he stabbed her multiple times in different parts of her body, until the woman died.”

The man then covered the woman’s body with a towel, wiped the blood splattered on the windshield and covered the car seats with a plastic bag and drove back to Dubai with the body. When he reached Dubai, he cut off her head and hands, burnt them and took them to a sandy area in Ajman where he buried them.

He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge of premeditated murder when he appeared in court.

The trial was adjourned to May 23 so the court can contact the victim’s family and see if they will pardon the killer.