Worker ‘stabbed compatriot in self-defence’, Dubai court hears

DUBAI // A worker who stabbed his compatriot in the stomach, back and chest, missing his heart by inches, told a court he was acting in self defence.

Q H, 23, from Pakistan, was charged with the attempted murder of M F, 20, on the evening of September 25 last year in Jebel Ali.

“I did not mean to kill him, he attacked me and I had to defend myself so I stabbed him,” Q H told the Dubai Criminal Court. He also presented an official document stating that the victim had dropped his rights in the case.

Prosecutors said that Q H lured M F to his room after claiming he had found his lost bank cash machine card. “As we entered the room he asked me to sit and then locked the door and turned off the lights,” said M F, who saw Q H take out a fruit knife he was hiding in his trousers.

“He stabbed me in the left and right sides of my abdomen then below my heart and in my back,” said M F.

M F resisted and managed to grab part of the knife before unlocking the door.

M G, from Pakistani, said he heard screams coming from the Q H’s room while he was in the shower. “I ran to Q H’s room but the door was locked, the screams continued then the door opened and M F fell in a pool of his own blood right under our feet,” M G said.

Prosecutors’ records state that the defendant confessed to planning his attack 15 minutes beforehand.

The next hearing will be held on August 16 to appoint a lawyer for Q H.

salamir@thenational.ae