(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) A 25-year-old maid has been charged with attempted murder at the Dubai Court of First Instance for allegedly stabbing her friend's fianc.
The incident happened on February 3 and was reported at Naif police station.
The maid, an Ethiopian, denied the charge, claiming she did not intend to kill him.
The complainant, a 40-year-old Sudanese man, said he was waiting for his Ethiopian fiance near his place in Al Murar when the latter arrived with the defendant.
"As I learned that they wanted to go to a nightclub, I grabbed my fiance and told her not to go with her. But the defendant spoke to her in their language and asked her to make me believe they were not going," the man said.
When he tried to walk away with his fiance, the accused allegedly stabbed him in the chest with a knife, he added.
The man fainted shortly after.
His 25-year-old fiance supported his statement during the public prosecution investigation, saying that she witnessed the incident.
The forensic report showed that complainant's stab wound affected his left lung and caused internal bleeding.
During the investigation, the defendant admitted to stabbing the man.
Marie Nammour
Originally from Lebanon, Marie has been covering the Dubai Courts and the Public Prosecution, immigration and labour issues often, and the Dubai International Film Festival. A graduate from the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Jounieh, a city to the north of Beirut, she worked as an in-house reporter of international affairs at a leading TV station back home and a legal translator for a renowned law academy in the Lebanese capital. Speaks fluently four languages and is fond of travelling, psychology, learning more, and has grown by now a rich criminal imagination...
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