Sharjah Criminal Court orders the death penalty for two students who killed their colleague

Yesterday, the Sharjah Criminal Court, headed by Judge Hussein Al-Assofi, and with the membership of Judges Mohammed Mohammed Al-Sayed, Saud Mohammed Al-Salameen, and Secretary Mohammed Al-Tahan, ruled in their presence and unanimously, to death (retribution) by available means, for two Kuwaiti students accused of deliberately killing their colleague at the University of Sharjah. After their honor was forcibly violated, they confiscated his freedom, and destroyed his mobile phone, provided that the sentence is executed in the presence of the heir of blood. Or his legitimate and legal representative.

In detail, the court ruled, in its presence and unanimously, to punish the first defendant (Youssef H., 20 years old), with retaliatory death by any means available on charges of intentionally killing the victim (Mubarak M., 19 years old), after forcibly assaulting his honor, depriving him of his freedom, and destroying his mobile phone.

The second accused (Hashim M., 19 years old) was punished with retaliatory death using available means for the charge of intentionally killing the victim, after forcibly assaulting his honor, and participating in detaining his freedom.

The court also ruled to punish the third defendant (fugitive) (Fadil M.) by fining him 1,000 dirhams, on the charge of refraining from informing the authorities about the murder charge attributed to the first and second defendants.

A video clip lasting six minutes and three seconds documented the incident, as one of the defendants filmed it on a mobile phone, and it included many scenes related to the case related to the defendants’ beating of the dead man, physical attacks on him, and other methods of torture.

The victim’s lawyer, legal advisor Salem Obaid bin Sahouh, told Emirates Al-Youm that the ruling confirms the supremacy of justice and the integrity of litigation, in that the court was not affected by any external circumstances after the widespread media hype that accompanied the case, noting that “the circumstances of the case, the investigations and the reports The medical team confirmed the incident and the charges, and on the basis of that, the court issued its ruling with complete transparency.”

Bin Sahouh said, “This ruling is for the court of first instance, and there are still two levels of litigation, namely the appeal and the Federal Supreme Court,” revealing that after the ruling was issued, no reconciliation was concluded between the two parties, and no new additional (blood money) amounts were offered, after a lawyer offered The first accused paid 100 thousand Kuwaiti dinars (about one million and 400 thousand dirhams).

He explained that “the guardian of blood has the right to waive the ruling on retaliation at any stage of the litigation, up to the moment of execution of the death sentence.”

The victim’s parents (the blood guardians) attended the session, as were the parents of the first accused. The blood guardians received the ruling with great satisfaction, confirming their continuation and determination to pursue retaliation, and not accepting any blood money offered to them.

The details of the case go back to February of last year, when Sharjah Police received a report of the victim’s death, after the student arrived, accompanied by one of his colleagues, to the University Hospital in the University City of Sharjah. He was in a critical condition, requiring his admission to the emergency department, but he died despite attempts to save him. A police team moved to the hospital to check on the condition of the deceased.

The initial inspection of the body indicated that there was a criminal suspicion behind the death, as the clinical examination revealed the presence of scattered injuries throughout the body of the deceased. The Sharjah Public Prosecutor ordered the body to be transferred to the forensic laboratory and presented to the forensic physician for examination and to determine the causes of death. During the investigation with the first accused (his colleague who brought him to the hospital), he initially stated that he was with the deceased in a café in the Muwaileh area when he suddenly fell to the ground, unconscious, which prompted him to call for help from a passer-by to help him move him to the nearest hospital, so they took him to University Hospital.

When asked about the cause of the injuries that appeared on the body of the deceased, he admitted that he had participated with a third colleague of theirs (the second defendant) in beating the victim, at intermittent intervals over a period of three days, while they were in the shared residence, which was an apartment rented from the first defendant in the area Abu Danq, in Sharjah.

He added that the victim lived with him permanently in the apartment, while the second accused visited them from time to time.

After the arrest of the second suspect, he admitted to participating in the assault and beating of the victim, in agreement with the first, for the purpose of “disciplining” him, due to the presence of personal disputes and financial claims between the victim and the first accused.

Through the Public Prosecution’s follow-up of the case, and after completing its investigations with the accused and verifying their statements, it ordered their arrest and referral to the Criminal Court, along with a third accused (fugitive) who knew about the crime but refrained from reporting it.