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Death penalty of housemaid’s rapist-murderers commuted
The death penalty awarded to two men for gang-raping two Filipina housemaids and killing one of them in the process was commuted by the Fujairah Court of Appeal recently.
Another convict, who is a minor, was acquitted after the blood heirs of the deceased surrendered their rights in the case and reached a reconciliation agreement with his father.
Presiding Judge of an appellate court bench Abdullah Al Salami quashed the death penalty of a 25-year-old B.H.G and 21-year-old M.A — both Emirati — and sentenced them to six months in prison each. The judge also acquitted 15-year-old A.H, who was the prime accused, after the blood heirs of the maid who was strangled to death after being raped had given up their rights. The court turned down the appeal by the public prosecution against him.
The incident happened in A.H’s house in the Mirbih locality of Fujairah in mid-October in 2009. The Fujairah Police were informed by the Emirati minor’s father that his maid was raped and murdered and another domestic servant was also gang-raped by unknown persons at 3am. The cops collected pieces of evidence from the crime scene and interrogated the surviving maid, who said she had an affair with A.H. She allowed the trio to sneak into the bedroom of the maids after A.H. convinced her to allow him to bring in her friends for a drinking session.
The two men gang-raped her fellow maid and strangled her to death after she started screaming loudly.
They were arrested but denied the murder was premeditated. They said they did not intend to kill her, but her scream forced them to gag her, lest they be discovered.
They were referred to the Criminal Court of First Instance, which sentenced B.H.G and M.A to capital punishment and acquitted A.H. However, the court ordered A.H be kept in the Juvenile Home as the heirs of the victim had surrendered their rights after they reached a reconciliation agreement with the teen’s father.
B.H.G and M.A contested the verdict at the Court of Appeal. Though the heirs of the deceased maid pursued the case during several sittings, they finally surrendered their rights and the court commuted their death penalty.
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