DOHA: An Arab expatriate is accused of killing a fellow Arab in cold blood following suspicion that he had an affair with his wife. Gory details of the incident in which the accused is alleged to have assaulted his victim with a sword in the middle of a road blocking traffic, were given by Al Sharq yesterday.
The wife of the accused once visited a hospital to see an ailing friend and there she met this man. Both became friendly.
What caused her husband to suspect foul play was that she had saved the victim’s cell number in her mobile phone using a code word. Also, over time the husband became disturbed as he noticed that his wife’s behaviour was changing. One fine day he forced the wife to call up the victim and invite him home.
The man turned up in his car, dressed in the traditional Arab attire, and as he arrived, the woman went up to him and he opened the door.
But just then emerged her husband from behind and without any provocation attacked the man with a sword, according to charges filed by the prosecution.
An eye witness told a lower criminal court hearing the sensational murder case that the incident took place as he was waiting to take his daughter for private tuition.
“I saw a car parked right in the middle of a road blocking traffic. There was this man standing with a sword and a woman screaming and shouting,” said the witness.
He said he came closer to the car and saw a man seated in the front, next to the driver’s seat. “He was lying in a pool of blood.”
“Then the woman suddenly took the sword from the accused and threw it in the outer courtyard of a house that was theirs,” the witness told the court. The witness said he asked the accused who the woman was and he replied she was his wife and that he had killed the victim to safeguard his honour.
“My wife had the mobile number of the victim saved in her cell phone,” the witness quoted the accused as saying.
“I left the place and called in the police but they said they had already been informed by someone and a police team had rushed to the site of the crime,” said the witness. A doctor who arrived in an ambulance told the court the man was already dead when he reached the spot.
It was such a brutal killing that blood could be seen sprinkled on the road for up to 15 metres. The force of the assault was so deep and severe that the left lung of the deceased had been cut into two causing his death.
The Peninsula
