(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) The Fujairah Court of Appeal has increased the prison sentences of a Pakistani expatriate, who brutally killed his Emirati wife and caused serious injuries to the watchman of a farm, and his compatriot accomplice from five years to six, while the former's son who abetted him in the premeditated murder was handed down a three-year jail term instead of a year-and-a-half.
In its ruling on Tuesday, the court upheld the deportation order against the second accused.
The woman reportedly had an affair with the watchman which enraged her husband and son.
According to the court records, the incident happened in the summer of 2013, when Al Madina (Town) police station was alerted by the Fujairah Hospital that a 43-year-old Emiriti woman, K.A.H, who was brought to the hospital with injuries on the head and several parts of her body, had died. A 30-year-old Pakistani man, M.G.A, had also arrived at the hospital with serious injuries, it informed the police.
Criminal Investigation Department officers who reached the hospital soon after collected information. Subsequent investigation showed that the woman's Pakistani husband, M.M.M, 48, his 24-year-old son, A.M.M, and another person, also Pakistani identified only as K.A aged 23, were involved in the murder. The injured man who was the watchman of a farm told the police that he witnessed the murder.
According to the case, the husband lured his wife to the farm watchman's room as per an agreement with his son and the other accomplice to wait for them. The trio pounced on the woman as soon as she arrived and beat her up. Her husband immobilised her while the son and the other accomplice stabbed her in different parts of the body that later resulted in her death.
The watchman, who was beaten up by the trio, managed to escape with severe injuries.
The watchman told the police that he had seen the murder. It turned out that the woman had an affair with the watchman.
The Public Prosecution charged the trio with premeditated murder. The Court of First Instance sentenced the husband and his compatriot accomplice to five years in jail each and ordered the deportation of the latter after serving his jail term. It also handed down the son one-and-a-half years in prison. It also ordered the trio to collectively pay the blood money to the heirs of the deceased, as the victim's eldest son had given up his right to the blood money at a court hearing.
The Public Prosecution and victim's family contested the verdict at the Appellate Court, which increased their jail terms, but upheld the rulings on the payment of the blood money and deportation of the second accused.
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