Drug addict stabs father 36 times for not giving him money

AL AIN: The Al Ain Criminal Court issued a ruling convicting a young Emirati man of killing his father with 36 stab wounds, and damaging his brother’s car, by deliberately ramming into it with his vehicle several times in order to prevent him from taking his father to the hospital.

The murderer was sentenced to death by retribution ater the aggrieved parties insisted on retribution and refused a pardon.

In the details of the case, according to witnesses and investigations, the accused was constantly asking for money from his father, who sometimes gave it and refrained at other times, knowing that the accused used it to buy psychotropic substances.

The accused used to beat his father whenever he refused to give him money to buy drugs.

On the day of the incident, which occurred ater Tarawih prayers during the month of Ramadan, the accused lured the victim to the courtyard of the house on the pretext of talking to him, and as soon as he approached him at an appropriate distance, he stabbed him 36 times with a sharp scalpel on different parts of his body.

When the accused’s brother saw the incident from the balcony of his room, he went down to the hall of the house, where he put his father in his car and tried to help him, but the accused hit his brother’s car several times with his car until it could not move.

On the other hand, the second brother who was outside the home reported to the police, ater hearing the sound of his father screaming while talking to him on the mobile phone ater the incident. The brother knew that he was going to speak with the accused in the courtyard of the house and that the later used to beat him.

On the other hand, the victim’s brother also ran to rescue his brother and took him to the hospital, but he was already dead.

The family prosecution in the city of Al Ain had referred the accused to the Criminal Court on charges of premeditated murder, and he was also accused of deliberately damaging his brother’s vehicle, knowing full well that his father, the victim, was inside it in order to prevent him from being rescued and completing the crime.

He was also accused of consuming a psychoactive substance (“Pregabalin”) without a medical prescription as required by law.

In its pleading before the court, the Public Prosecution demanded the imposition of the maximum penalty on the accused, and considered that the fact that the victim was the accused’s father was an aggravating circumstance.