A young man has been sentenced to life in jail in Dubai on charges of murdering his girlfriend in his car.
The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced heard that the crime took place after an argument over the Asian man’s suspicion of her affair with another person.
In July 2019, the man entered a police station in Dubai frightened and his clothes stained with blood, local media reports said.
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He reportedly told the officer on duty that he killed a girl with whom he had a love relationship, and that her body was inside his vehicle in the station’s parking lot.
The officer testified in the interrogations of the Public Prosecution that he asked the personnel in the station to detain the suspect and went to the vehicle, where he found a girl with her neck slit and several stab wounds in different parts of her body, a Gulf Today report highlighted.
He reportedly found a large knife on the back seat of the vehicle, which the suspect said he used to commit the crime.
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The officer added that when he returned to his office, the suspect told him that he committed the crime inside his vehicle at the parking lot of a mall.
He added that he had a love affair with the victim for five years, but he discovered that she was in a relationship with another person.
The man was referred to the Public Prosecution and then to the court. He confessed to the crime during the court’s session but denied his intention to kill her with premeditation.
