arrest the suspects.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nIt turned out the group knew the victim and his relatives, according to the primary judgment and prosecutors\u2019 findings \u2014 and the murder happened due to previous disputes and vengeance issues dating back to when they were in Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Plot twist?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In what is believed to be a new twist in the case, lawyer Al Sayegh argued that the victim had been threatening to kill her client back home \u2014 a factor that forced H.Y. to come to Dubai to look for a job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe felt that his life was endangered, so he came here to escape from the victim\u2019s death threats. He was not aware that the victim had been chasing him, or that he was present in Dubai,\u201d she told the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Supporting her defence argument, the lawyer cited her client’s testimony during interrogation: “I didn\u2019t intend to premeditatedly kill him, but I was defending myself and pushing him away when he attacked me using the chair \u2026 I wanted to fend him off”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Al Sayegh asked the appellate court to hand her client a \u2018reduced and lenient\u2019 punishment based on article 98 of the Penal Code, considering that he is under 21 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe accused was born on March 28, 2004 and as per the pertinent laws, the primary court should have considered his young age and handed him a reduced punishment!\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The lawyer also argued that obtaining a weapon was something \u2018casual\u2019 in the client’s culture, stressing that the young man didn\u2019t possess the knife with an intent to kill the victim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Concluding her defence, Al Sayegh asked the appellate court to acquit her client of murder and dismiss the prosecutors\u2019 appeal for a stiffer punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Appeal Court is expected to issue its judgment in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An Israeli teenager convicted of murder in Dubai is seeking to overturn his life sentence. Filing an appeal in court, his lawyer said the young man “acted in self-defence”. In January, the Dubai Court of First Instance found the 19-year-old visitor guilty of ‘premeditatedly killing’ a 33-year-old man outside a shisha caf\u00e9 in Business Bay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,65,59,20,1,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-dubai","category-government","category-uae","category-uncategorized","category-uae-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5804,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions\/5804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajmantimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}