DUBAI // A 33-year-old woman will spend 10 years in jail after she was convicted of stabbing her boyfriend to death, after which she lay on his chest and fell asleep.
The victim’s Syrian friend, 40, had dinner with the Palestinian boyfriend in Garhoud on the night of the incident. “He kept receiving phone calls during our dinner. He told me that night that he wanted to break up with his girlfriend because he felt uncomfortable and bored in the relationship,” said the friend, adding that the victim often complained about his girlfriend’s jealousy.
“He told me that she would make him problems for just saying hello to a female friend and that she kept insisting that they try to have kids together.”
The Kazakh woman, a business partner, called the friend at noon the following day. “She was crying. She told me that she had killed him and didn’t know what to do,” said the Syrian, who reported the incident.
The defendant was drunk at the time of the murder, on August 16, 2014.
She found her boyfriend asleep in the bedroom of their Al Qusais apartment and she tried to wake him up to talk to him, but she did not succeed.
“She then sat on him and stabbed him. He woke up and tried to defend himself but she stabbed him two additional times. She slept with her head on his chest, before she called the police when she woke up,” said a policeman.
During police questioning the woman said she had bought her boyfriend two cars and he had taken money from her but was going to leave her.
“She was crying and hysterical. She told me that she was constantly fighting with him because he had had relationships with other women and that he promised to marry her but kept breaking his promise,” said another Emirati police officer.
She was convicted of premeditated murder, having consensual sex with the deceased and of consuming alcohol without a licence.
She was ordered to pay Dh100,000 as compensation to the dead man’s family and she will be deported after serving her term.
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