Abu Dhabi Cassation Court upholds death sentence for the murder of his father with 36 stabs

The Abu Dhabi Court of Cassation has upheld the death sentence handed down in the case of the young Emirati man for the premeditated murder of his father.

The murderer, who was determined to take his father’s life, prepared a sharp weapon to carry out his gruesome plan and, as soon as he met his father, he struck him in different parts of the body, causing him the injuries that cost him his life. He also deliberately damaged his brother’s vehicle to prevent him from transporting their father to hospital.

Regarding the details of the case, according to witnesses and investigations, the perpetrator constantly asked his father for money, who sometimes gave him and sometimes refused, knowing that his son used the money to buy psychoactive substances. The accused used to beat his father whenever he refused to give him the money he needed to buy drugs. The accused is an ex-convict in a drug abuse case who was placed in a detoxification clinic.

On the day of the crime, the accused lured the victim into the courtyard of the house under the pretence of talking to him about something. As soon as the victim came within an appropriate distance, the accused stabbed him 36 times with a blunt object in different parts of his body. The accused’s brother, seeing the incident from the balcony of his room, rushed down to the hall of the house, placed his father in his car and tried to take him to the hospital. However, the accused, in his own vehicle, hurriedly blocked his brother’s way and crashed his car against his brother’s vehicle several times to the point of making it inoperable.

The second brother who was outside the house alerted the police after hearing his father shouting while talking to him on his mobile phone, and knew that he was going to talk to his brother, the accused, in the courtyard of the house and that the latter used to beat him. In turn, the victim’s brother also ran to rescue his brother and took him to the hospital, but he was already dead.

he Public Prosecution had referred the accused to the criminal court for premeditated murder. He was also accused of deliberately damaging his brother’s vehicle by hitting it with his own car while aware of the presence of his father, the victim, inside the vehicle in order to prevent him from being rescued and to accomplish his crime. He was also accused of consuming a psychoactive substance without a medical prescription as required by law.

In its arraignment, the Prosecution requested that the maximum sentence be laid down against the accused, considering that the victim being the father of the accused constituted an aggravating circumstance. The Court sentenced the murderer to death after the aggrieved parties insisted on retribution and refused a pardon.