Dubai: Asian worker gets 15 years in jail for stabbing, killing his colleague

The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced a 26-year-old Asian construction worker yesterday to 15 years in prison and deportation from the country after serving the sentence  after he was found to have murdered one of his colleagues and injured another in a knife fight.

According to the testimony of the second victim, who was in his room in a workers’ residence in Jebel Ali, he heard a loud noise coming from the corridor, he then went out and saw the accused fighting with the first victim, and trying to stab him with the knife. The man tried to get between them with the help of others, but he got stabbed and injured in his hand. Police and Ambulance teams were immediately called to the scene.