(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) An unemployed man told the police he stabbed his older sibling with a knife in an act of self-defence after the latter beat him, but did not turn up in court to defend himself.
The defendant, a 24-year-old Emirati who is currently on bail, is accused of attempting to murder his brother, but he did not turn up in the Court of First Instance to face the charge.
According to prosecution records, the incident happened on November 18 last year.
The stabbed brother, a 30-year-old employee, said in the investigation that around 4.30pm on the day of the alleged stabbing, he was at the family home in Al Warqa 1 when he heard his sister screaming.
"The accused was threatening her. I became angry and hit him with my hand," the older brother told the prosecution.
The accused then took a knife out of his pocket and stabbed his older sibling in his chest while other family members tried to break up the fight.
The defendant's sister, a 21-year-old employee, testified that her older brother had to intervene when she had a heated argument with the accused.
"When my older brother punched him, my younger brother brandished a knife and stabbed him in his chest," she said in the investigation.
She managed to snatch the knife out of the defendant's hand to stop him from further attacking their older sibling, before calling the ambulance, she said.
A police corporal said that he saw the older brother bleeding at his family flat in Al Warqa 1 before being taken in the ambulance. His injury was serious but he was conscious.
The officer quoted the accused as saying that he stabbed his brother in self-defence after the latter punched him.
According to the crime lab report, blood traces were found on the wall of the corridor leading to the flat, on the flat's threshold, and on a couch in the flat.
The prosecutors accused the younger brother of attempted murder considering the stab wound could have been fatal had he not been rushed to hospital for treatment, and had the sister not confiscated the knife from him.
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