The Criminal Court of Sharjah yesterday heard testimonies of witnesses in the case of a cleaner accused of killing her colleague in the apartment by stabbing the victim while drunk, due to some personal issues happened between the two in the dormitory.
The first witness who lived in the same apartment, was a colleague of the accused and the victim. She said that she heard a quarrel at night, went out of her room and saw the accused sitting over the victim with a knife. The victim was bleeding and tried to remove the accused but accused stabbed her. The rest of the colleagues couldn’t control the accused until other workers came, noticing that she was drunk.
The second witness stated that she heard the sound of a quarrel and went out of her room, and that’s when she saw the accused holding two knives (small and big), with traces of blood, pointing out that she did not see the stabbing the victim. While trying to calm her down, the accused stabbed the victim in her back and head, to be taken to the hospital afterwards.
The third witness said that she saw the accused stabbing the victim in her chest, pointing out that the former was in an abnormal state under the influence of alcohol, and was willing to stab any colleague approaching her, when she indicated that she got stabbed and treated long time ago.
When the court confronted her by the statements of witnesses, the accused denied her knowledge of anything happened in the incident, claiming that she was under the influence of alcohol and that she couldn’t remember the events of her crime.
The incident goes back to the fourth quarter of last year, when a fight broke out between the accused and the victim inside the dormitory in the industrial zone in Sharjah, du to some personal disputes, which later turned into a quarrel and led to a murder.
The court in its first session summoned the representative of the cleaning company, who handed over papers to send the body of the victim to her relatives in her country, and complete the procedures for issuing the death certificate, as he handed over a copy of her passport and her relatives’ place of residence.
The court decided to postpone the case to the hearing to July 9 to summon the rest of the witnesses, and bring the consulate representative to know the requests of the victim’s heirs.
