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Vendor, two maids on trial in Dh200,000 jewel theft case
A vendor and two maids allegedly stole jewellery worth Dh200,000 after barging into a flat where one of the maids worked and assaulting the tenant’s 64-year-old mother, a court heard on Wednesday.
The defendants, all Sri Lankans, faced the charges of forcible robbery in the Court of First Instance.
The housewife said during investigation that the incident happened when she was in her son’s flat in Mirdiff in March. She heard knocks on the door and she thought it was the water supplier. When she opened the door, the defendants were there. They pushed her inside and locked the door. They tied her up with a bed sheet they fetched from the house and grabbed her grandson.
As she screamed loudly for help, the man lay on top of her and gagged her. She bit his hand and he slapped her repeatedly. By the time, the maids brought another bed sheet and wrapped her head. She heard the man saying that they had to take the valuables from the house, as she lost consciousness.
About half an hour later, she woke up and found the place in a mess. She untied herself and at first thought the assailants might have kidnapped her grandson, but she found him in a room.
A bracelet, a ring and a necklace she was wearing, four bracelets her grandson was wearing and the gold jewellery of her daughter-in-law kept in a cupboard in a bedroom were missing. She said that the entire jewellery was worth Dh200,000.
A police lieutenant said they received the complaint about the robbery in March. The complainant told them that one of the maids had been in the flat before.
The police raided the defendants’ flat in Al Qusais where some of the jewellery pieces were found. The rest were recovered from a car the vendor was driving.
The vendor told the police that they had planned the robbery in advance. They knew that there was gold jewellery in the flat as one of the maids had done cleaning work in the flat the same day.
On that day, he and another maid knocked on the door and claimed that they wanted to visit the other maid. When the complainant shouted at them asking them to leave the place, he grabbed her and she collapsed, he said. He tried to stop her from screaming while the women accomplices stole the jewellery.
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