Verdict on Filipina’s murder by next month

abu dhabi — The verdict in the case of a Filipino butcher accused of killing his aunt in Abu Dhabi over a debt of Dh10,000 will be issued next month if the court doesn’t receive a communication from the woman’s family on blood money.

The man had attacked his compatriot woman with a meat cleaver and then dumped her body parts in desert areas of Dubai and Ajman to cover up his crime.

The Abu Dhabi Criminal Court of First Instance earlier heard that the woman’s decomposed headless body was found in a desert area in Al Warqa’a.

The victim, Manormeeta Salwaro Dadi, 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 finding a headless body in a highly decomposed state.

The Dubai Police arrested the Filipino who worked as a butcher in Dubai from his home in the Abu Hail area in September last year after identifying the victim, three months after the murder.

Investigations suggested that the defendant had borrowed Dh10,000 from the victim and killed her when she demanded her money back.

The man had admitted to the police that he took a cleaver and a knife from his home and drove his friend’s car to Abu Dhabi where he met the woman. He said he had convinced the woman to get into the car and then drove her to a deserted place in the Musaffah area as the pair argued over the money.

He said during interrogation that he stabbed her multiple times in different parts of her body until she 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,” said a prosecutor.

His lawyer had told the court that he was trying to contact the victim’s family in the Philippines. And during the hearing on Tuesday, there was still nothing to suggest that the family had been reached over the issue of blood money. The judge adjourned the trial until October 31 for the ruling.

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