Saturday: 13 February 2010:
Son stabs father to death while he was on his morning prayer
Major Jumaa Al Kaabi, Head of Homicide Section, CID at Abu Dhabi Police has revealed a case of murder with different nature than other homicide cases. A young son killed his father while the latter was doing his morning prayer at his working place stabbing his father seven times on his stomach and back.
The son justified his crime saying that his father refused to give him few Dirhams'. He did not specify the amount he asked for.
The suspect an Asian identified as M. M. S., 21 years, working as an auto electric mechanic in his fathers workshop narrated the crime saying “When I woke up on the upper floor of the workshop I saw my father doing his morning prayer on the ground floor. I decided to take the stairs to the ground floor with a kitchen knife in my hand. While my father was in the middle of his prayer I stabbed him three times in his stomach. My father bent down with pain and he put his both hands on his stomach, then I stabbed him four times on his back, and dropped the knife under his feet. Then I took him and hugged him to my chest to die in my arms.”
He continued his story saying “Then I cried, I killed him because I was angry with him. Anyone who approached me I would have killed him as well. He justified his horrible crime that there was nothing wrong between him and his father and that nobody had provoked him to kill his father. He was a psycho and he had been in a mental hospital in his home country”.
Major Al Kaabi said ‘Two workers in the same workshop, during interrogation, said they woke up from their sleep on the upper floor to the noise of screams and brawl. When they came down they found the suspect and the victim struggling with each others. One of the two men saw the knife in the hand of the son so he took it from him by force and called the operations room. The other man held the suspect very tightly so as not to escape, until the arrival of the police. Both of them confirmed that the suspect quarreled with all workers in his father’s workshop. He was admitted to psychiatric hospital for 15 days. He was suffering from several psychological disorders”.
Federal Penal Law punishes murder crime in accordance with article number 332 “Anyone who commits a murder intentionally will be sentenced to life or temporary imprisonment, he shall executed if it is preceded with determination or is connected with another crime or the victim is one of the criminals relatives or a public servant or is tasked with a public service during or because he carries out his duties or his service and if a poisonous stuff or explosives are used un the crime”.