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By Ali Al-Shouk
Police have arrested four men on suspicion of the gang rape and murder of a young housemaid.
The Emiratis were arrested following the discovery of a woman’s body last week on farmland in the Al-Daid region of Sharjah. The victim, an Ethiopian aged in her 20s, had suffered extensive wounds to her head.
Police believe she had been repeatedly struck with rocks until she died.
Sources at Sharjah Police said the woman had been working as a maid at a house in Khor Fakan in Sharjah and disappeared at the beginning of this month.
“She had been working for the three months before she disappeared from the house,” the source said. “She had no reason to disappear and no friends in the area.”
The source added: “Our investigations led us to the main suspect who is an Emirati and who has had a previous conviction for carrying out such a crime.”
During investigations the man confessed to the murder and said he had carried out the attack with three other men.
The source said the main suspect had previously been jailed for the rape and murder of a Pakistani teenage girl and had been sentenced to death for the crime.
However, after serving a number of years in jail he was then released and pardoned after paying blood money to his 13-year-old victim’s family.
According to the preliminary police investigations, the gang watched the housemaid for a number of days before kidnapping her. She was gagged and then repeatedly gang-raped.
Despite escaping from her attackers, the men hunted her down, raped her again and then killed her to prevent her identifying them to police, according to the source.
The men are being held in custody while the investigations continue.
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COMMENTS
Does anyone know anything about her or about the case? Many of these cases seem so anonymous, they come and go with no names. She must have had a family, an employer, a whole life but we never hear any of this
Posted by: seansouth [15.Aug.09 4 : 13 PM]These men should be sentenced to death. They should not be given a chance to live because they have no place in this society.
Posted by: hazelle [15.Aug.09 8 : 14 AM]The practice of blood money should be re-thought. Someone let a potentially serial rapist out into the world to kill again... and he did without any remorse.
Posted by: nicolettef@hotmail.com [15.Aug.09 12 : 33 AM]so they let a paedophile go since he paid off the victim's poor family. Allowed him to believe he could go out and commit a similar crime again. will they let these criminals pay blood money to the maid's poor family this time,and get pardoned again? what crap!?!
Posted by: stormystorm [14.Aug.09 11 : 26 PM]These men should be left in an asylum for life.. If he had the money and power to pay for blood money and get out.. did he not have the money to pay for his own sexual pleasure? Im guessing 'rape' gives them that extra thrill an accomplishment!!! Shame on them!
Posted by: Purpleness [14.Aug.09 7 : 22 PM]KEEP THIS MONSTER BEHIND THE BARS AND NEVER LET HIM OUT
Posted by: sleepless in sharjah [14.Aug.09 2 : 29 PM]This is just despicable. A 13 year old child was a victim, he was on deathrow, he was the one who should have been gagged & hanged, not another victim. This is just despicable. There are no words that can describe the atrocity of this crime, & there is no sentence less than death for all of the criminals involved in this crime.
Posted by: Dragon King [14.Aug.09 2 : 11 PM]KEEP YOURSELF UPDATED
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