A cleaner who smuggled his girlfriend into his sponsor’s villa then strangled her when she loudly pestered him to stay with her must see out his 25-year jail term.
The Asian man, 31, worked at a villa in a luxury residential community. He invited the Nepalese girlfriend for a physical tryst on the evening of May.20, 2017, Al Barsha Police Station records showed.
They met inside his room after which she asked him not to stay far from her. He insisted he had to work and that he feared his sponsor would smoke them out. However, she refused to pay heed.
He grabbed her throat and pushed her. She started shouting. He attacked her as she resisted. He strangled her until she was motionless. He pushed her. She fell hitting her head on a washroom sink.
At the Criminal Court, he acknowledged sleeping with her but denied killing her. “She died on her own,” he contended. On Dec.20 he contended that he pushed her in self-defence during a brawl.
Records showed he confessed to the assault before police and prosecutors. Prosecutors demanded the toughest punishment. The court sentenced him to 25 years in jail to be followed by deportation.
He appealed arguing that when she pestered him to marry her they had a contention that erupted into a fight. She was attacking him when he pushed her and she slumped hitting her head so hard.
On May 9 he denied murder and acknowledged having had an affair with her. He sought a lenient punishment. However, the Appeals Court’s jury has overlooked his arguments and upheld the penalty.
A Pakistani gardener clearing rubbish and weeds around the villa spotted the half-naked body lying face down at around 6.20am the next day. He alerted watchmen who summoned the police.
An Emirati corporal said they learnt she was in a relationship with the cleaner. They arrested him at around 11am. He revealed she came to the villa and contacted him to facilitate her entrance.
He smuggled her inside the villa then took her to his room. He slept with her then told her he had to continue with his cleaning duties. She refused and begged him to sit beside her and chat.
He expressed how he feared problems might arise were his sponsor to discover her. She pestered him to sit down. He was walking out when she grabbed him from behind and pulled him back.
She kept shouting and begging him not to go. He feared his sponsor would hear her screams. He turned and squeezed her throat for around four minutes then pushed her against a table.
She reiterated the request and shouted begging him not to leave. This infuriated him. He grabbed her throat and staggered with her towards the washroom. He pushed her into the washroom.
She fell hitting her head on the sink. He started asking her to get up. She was not responding. He carried her body on his back, climbed down a ladder and dumped it outside the villa.
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