Man jailed for killing girlfriend after sleeping with her

Dubai - She died after her head hit bathroom sink.

A domestic helper, who strangled his girlfriend to death following an argument, was sentenced to life in jail on Sunday.
The Court of First Instance earlier heard that the 31-year-old Nepalese worker had sex with the woman - who hailed from his country - on May 20, 2017, in his room at his sponsor's villa in the Emirates Hills.
He strangled the woman and then pushed her, causing her head to hit a sink in the bathroom, following a heated exchange of words.
The court convicted him of murder as well as illicit sex charges and ordered his deportation after completing his jail term. The man denied he had meant to kill the victim during his trial.
The victim's body was found by a Pakistani irrigation worker.
"I was carrying out some gardening work around 6.20am when I found a woman's body. At first, I thought it was plastic. I called security guards and the police arrived later," the 32-year-old witness said.
A Filipino archives clerk, 43, said he spotted the victim entering that villa around 1:30pm from the garbage collection room. "The next day, I heard that a woman's body had been found. I went to Al Barsha police station to give a testimony, as told by the CID officers, about what I had seen earlier."
The police apprehended the accused at 11:00am the next day near the villa after gathering information he had a close relation with the victim.
"He admitted at the police station that the victim was his girlfriend. On that day, she came to the villa and he let her in. They had lunch in his room and then sex. When he was about to leave her there to go about his cleaning duties, she insisted on him staying to talk with her. He got scared he would have trouble if his sponsor found out about her. He could not talk her into letting him go and she kept insisting on him to stay with her," a police corporal said.
As he went to the door, she stood up and grabbed him while yelling at him to stay. "I felt so worried my sponsor would hear her so I grabbed her by the neck and pressed for about 3 to 4 minutes," the accused told the police officer.
He then pushed her towards a table but she kept shouting which got him angry. "I grabbed her again by the neck and dragged her to the bathroom. I pushed her towards the sink and she hit her head and fell down. I carried her to the bed and left," he then confessed.
When he came back to the room later, he found her lifeless. He carried her body on his back and used a ladder to dispose it of outside the villa.
The defendant led the police to where he hid the victim's belongings in his closet.
The cleaner may appeal the court ruling within 15 days.
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