Men use sword in attack and robbery

Man stabbed after being lured with ‘special beads’

DUBAI // Three men were jailed for three years after being convicted of theft, assault and issuing death threats.

They cheated their victim by offering him “special” prayer beads before stabbing him with a sword and stealing more than Dh80,000.

The Emiratis, aged between 24 and 31, offered their Emirati victim prayer beads worth Dh65,000 in 2014.

“They said they would only hand me the beads if I showed them the cash first,” said the victim, 27. “One of them suddenly stabbed me in the chest. When I resisted, I was stabbed with a sword in the arm.” The man was dragged into the back seat, assaulted and threatened with death. “He called my maid and asked her to wait at the gate to my house and bring all the cash that was there. She didn’t know what was going on and did what they asked,” said the victim.

He was left in the back seat after being driven to another location, where his attackers met several men.

“With the little strength left in me, I managed to jump into the driver’s seat and speed away,” said the victim. When he reached home, he sat outside until an ambulance arrived and took him to hospital.

“I went out to check if he had returned and I saw him sitting on the pavement, bleeding,” the victim’s younger brother said. “He told me he was stabbed.” It was not clear why the case took three years to reach court or when the three men were arrested, but prosecutors said they confessed to the crime.