Dubai cook accuses victim of sexually harassing him, his girlfriend

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Dubai cook accuses victim of sexually harassing him, his girlfriend

Dubai - The 28-year-old Nepali denied a murder charge

By Marie Nammour

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Published: Sun 7 May 2017, 6:05 PM

Last updated: Sun 7 May 2017, 8:09 PM

A cook stood trial on Sunday accused of stabbing his workmate to death.
The 28-year-old Nepali denied a murder charge when he appeared in the Court of First Instance.
According to the public prosecution records, he confessed during investigation he killed the victim, claiming the latter sexually harassed him and his girlfriend.
The crime took place on December 20, last year.
An Indian cook, 32, who shares the same accommodation with the accused and the victim said that one of the victim's colleagues came checking on him after he failed to report to work on that day.
"I saw his shoes outside his room and I knocked on his door and ringed him on his mobile phone to remind him that the bus is almost here but could not reach him.
"Few hours later, a Filipino workmate came checking on the victim because he did not show up to work.
"I felt then that something wrong might have happened to him. So I went to the security office and alerted them. They brought a spare key and opened his room and there we saw the victim's body," the witness said.
A police lieutenant said the murder incident was reported around 7 pm at a complex of buildings in Ras al Khor.
"We learned the accommodation was for a hotel staff. The flat comprised of three rooms each occupied by one man. The victim did not go to work on that day.
"The body was discovered after the security guard opened the victim's room. The victim was lying in a pool of blood with his face down.
"Preliminary leads showed the defendant had an illicit relation with a woman who was staying with him in his room. There was a party, during which alcohol was served, in the hours before the incident took place. Both were brought for interrogation".
The accused claimed to the investigators: "Around 6:30 am on December 20, I was checking my camera when I heard my girlfriend screaming. She was near the bathroom and told me the victim was sexually harassing her.
"We had a verbal brawl and he (the victim) did not take me seriously. I dragged him inside his room but he then began harassing me in an indecent way. I went to the kitchen and brought a knife.
"I tried to calm him down and keep him away from me in vain. I stabbed him in the chest and several times in his back".
 The accused admitted he locked the victim up in his room and got rid of the key.
He wiped away all the blood traces that were left in the corridor of the flat.
The girlfriend confessed the accused told her to claim that they heard screams from the victim's room and act as if the incident was suicide. 
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