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Man denies he tried to rape, kill woman
A 37-year-old shepherd denied trying to kill a compatriot woman with a knife in her flat after he could not rape her.
The Sudanese defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges of murder attempt, rape attempt and trespassing into another person’s property when he appeared before a Court of First Instance bench.He, however, admitted to Presiding Judge Hamad Abdel Latif Abdel Jawad that he had consumed alcohol.
The 29-year-old complainant told the prosecutor that she had met the defendant at a shoe shop in Freej Al Murar on a day in March. He offered to help her carry her baggage to her flat and she agreed.
Around 10pm two days later, he came to her flat and asked her to accompany him to a nightclub but she declined and asked him to leave and never come back again.
Around 3am, he called her on the phone and said that he would come to her flat but she told him not to. She was surprised later when she saw him entering her flat. The door was not locked. He was very drunk.
He asked to have sex with her but she declined. When she screamed for help, he punched her on the face and pushed her down and lied on top of her. He moved away when she bit his chest. He kicked her head and stepped on her abdomen. She fainted and when she woke up later, she saw him holding a knife. He pulled her by the leg when she tried to run away. He tried to stab her with the knife and told her he would kill her.
She managed to grab the knife when it fell from his hand. He snatched away her mobile phone when she tried to call the police.
He told her that “he would kill her and get away with it”. She passed out when he assaulted her again. When she woke up, the accused was gone.
The complainant’s 43-year-old Sudanese neighbour, a visitor, said the complainant knocked on her door that night. The complainant, who had bruises on her head and face, was screaming for help. The witness learnt that the defendant tried to rape her and tried to kill her.
A police sergeant described the complainant as exhausted with apparent struggle marks and bruises on her face that day. She looked scared and tense.
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