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‘Eid-Boy’ Murder Case Adjourned as Court Seeks Psychiatric Opinion
DUBAI - The Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance on Sunday adjourned a case against a man accused of raping and murdering a four-year-old boy to January 10 for psychiatric opinion of the accused as requested by the defence lawyer.
- PUBLISHED: Mon 4 Jan 2010, 11:02 PM UPDATED: Mon 6 Apr 2015, 2:20 PM
Describing him as a ‘pharaoh’, prosecutor Mohammed Folaz said the accused - in cold blood, “slaughtered” an innocent child in disrespect to a place, the mosque in Al Qusais where the incident happened, and at a holy time, the Friday prayer on the first day of Eid Al Adha.
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“He chose the mosque as a scene for his crime, and the happy day of the Eid ‘feast’ for his debauchery,” Folaz told the court.
Further in his argument, Folaz said the “Eid boy” innocently agreed to accompany the “monster”, who promised to give him an Eid gift, at the mosque.
“Why not, the devil is of his father’s age and is from the neighbourhood, let alone they are on the Eid day, prior to Friday prayer, and in the mosque,” Folaz said.
“Clutching its prey, the ghoul pulled the sparrow down and gagged his nose and mouth while sodomising him. The monster then brutally hit Musa’s (the child) head to the ground when the child cried out for help, turning deaf ear to his pleas.”
Folaz then asked the suspect about the ‘lust’ he was gaining while assaulting a fainted, helpless and bleeding innocent child on the floor of a toilet.
“The beast even hit his little head again to the base of the toilet to make sure that he breathed his last and would not be able to recognise him,” Folaz told the court.
Indicating that the crime has created a panic in the whole society, Folaz sought the death sentence against the accused.
“The country, known for safety and stability, is eagerly anticipating your justice. Such savage crime may not be committed by a human being or even a beast, as animals in the wild are more merciful to little kids than him.”
Addressing the father of the “Eid boy” – who was not present, Folaz asked him to fear not as justice shall take action. “Your son’s blood will never go cheap.”
Citing verse (2:179) of the Holy Quran which reads: “And there is for you in legal retribution ‘saving of’ life]”, Folaz asked the Jury to have mercy on the devastated parents.
“This notorious criminal was never deterred by previous penalties over other sexual assaults and must be uprooted” Folaz asked the court.
Confirming that he would not dig for loopholes to save the defendant’s neck, defence lawyer Mohammed Al Saadi said he only accepted the case for being appointed by the honourable court and in implementation to law, because no other lawyer agreed to do the same.
“Though the accused is thoroughly surrounded by all evidences, I can not understand why he was indifferently staring at prosecution’s argument and earlier to the testimony of the weeping father,” he asked the court.
“I think he is not mentally stable,” he said, asking the court to refer the suspect to the psychiatrists concerned to medically report his mental and psychological status.
Describing him as the victim of his family and the society, Saadi told the court about the history of the suspect who lost his mother while she gave birth to him.
“He was brought up by his step-mother who was extremely ruthless to him. She not only used to torture him for trivial reasons but also kept stirring his father against him,” the lawyer said.
“He abandoned school in Grade 2, and was left to the street where he started smoking at the age of 10, and later became a drug addict.”
Further in his pleading, Saadi told the court that the defendant was jailed at the age of 14 for drug abuse.
“Failing to show discipline, he (the suspect) was terminated from the army, and later became a fisherman gaining only Dh2,200 per month, which he spent all on alcohol and narcotics.”
Saadi then quoted one of police interrogators’ comments that the suspect was indifferently smiling while answering questions about the crime, and simply confessed to the felony.
“Such abnormal conditions and comments may indicate that the accused is not mentally sound,” he said, asking the court to refer him to the experts concerned to report on his mental stability.
Deliberating the arguments of the prosecution and the defence lawyer for more than an hour, the court approved Saadi’s plea, and referred the accused to the psychiatrists.
The session saw the presence of Dubai Attorney General Essam Al Humaidan, Senior Advocate General, a number of district attorneys and court staffers.
