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Dubai to execute child's killer | Dubai to execute child's killer |
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A 30-year-old man has been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a four-year-old boy in Dubai. | A 30-year-old man has been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a four-year-old boy in Dubai. |
The man, identified only as a fishing boat captain named as RR, was found guilty of raping and murdering Moosa Mukhtiar Ahmed last year. | The man, identified only as a fishing boat captain named as RR, was found guilty of raping and murdering Moosa Mukhtiar Ahmed last year. |
He was convicted of killing the boy, originally from Pakistan, in a mosque toilet during the festival of Eid-al Adha in November. | He was convicted of killing the boy, originally from Pakistan, in a mosque toilet during the festival of Eid-al Adha in November. |
The man is expected to appeal against the sentence in the next few days. | The man is expected to appeal against the sentence in the next few days. |
In Dubai death sentences are carried out by firing squad. | In Dubai death sentences are carried out by firing squad. |
The court ruled the man must serve six months in prison for consuming alcohol before he is executed, reported The National, a newspaper in the United Arab Emirates. | |
"The killer showed no mercy to the child and so the court will show him no mercy," the newspaper reported Judge Fahmy Mounir Fahmy as saying. | "The killer showed no mercy to the child and so the court will show him no mercy," the newspaper reported Judge Fahmy Mounir Fahmy as saying. |
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