Fresh trial for man who caused friend’s death

A high-profile man won his appeal before Dubai’s highest court that overturned his 5-year imprisonment in the case on assaulting his friend to death and will have a fresh trial. The 30-year-old Emirati man indulged in a heated argument and assaulted his countryman friend in Al Barsha in January 2018. Dubai police’s forensic examination report confirmed that the Emirati deceased succumbed to a fatal cardiac infarction that was triggered by high blood pressure and sudden fear. The Appeal Court is expected to hold the fresh trial next month. (Staff Report)