DUBAI // An Uzbek expatriate who was jailed for life in 2007 for killing his brother applied for an early release on Monday after obtaining a waiver from his family.
In 2006, S Z, then 21, plotted the murder with is compatriot B A. First he tried to kill his brother – without success – by lacing his drink with drugs.
Two weeks later, S Z and B A again tried to poison the brother. The poison caused him to pass out in his bedroom where B A restrained him and S Z stabbed him in the heart with a kitchen knife.
S Z confessed to prosecutors that he and his accomplice let his brother bleed to death in his room before wrapping him in a blanket and dumping his body in Ajman.
He then went to a Russian friend, identified as R Z, and told him about the murder.
S Z said that he cried when he told R Z that he killed his brother but afterwards, he and R Z met a compatriot woman, identified as N K, where they both had sex with her.
As well as S Z’s life sentence of 25 years for murder, B A received the same sentence for aiding and abetting. The court also sentenced R Z to one year for failing to report the murder.
The Appeal Court accepted the application submitted by both S Z and B A for an early release, saying it will make a decision on June 26.
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