Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013
Sharjah: The court hearing of the two Kuwaiti students accused of killing their friend, Mubarak Mesha’al Mubarak, is set to start next week as the Sharjah Public Prosecution said it has finished the questioning of the suspects and witnesses and investigation in the case, Rashid Al Omrani, Attorney General of Sharjah Prosecution, told Gulf News.
He said the third suspect is being tracked down by Interpol and will be handed over to the judicial authorities in the UAE .
Video clips captured by one of the suspects and the logs of the phone calls between the victim and the three suspects have been thoroughly examined by authorities investigating the case in Sharjah.
Mubarak, 19, died at the University City Hospital in Sharjah on February 24. Two suspects in the case, Y.S. and H.M., are being held at Sharjah’s Central Prison and their court hearing will start in the next few days while the third suspect will be pursued by Interpol and brought to justice.
The suspects in the death of Mubarak, a Kuwaiti student of the University of Sharjah, said they had repeatedly beaten the 19-year-old over a period of three days for allegedly harassing one of their female relatives, official sources conducting the investigation told Gulf News.
It is understood that Mubarak was accused of harassing the sister of one of the three suspects. Authorities indicated this explained why Mubarak maintained his silence despite four days of torture and did not report the matter to police.
In March , Interpol help was sought by Sharjah Police to track down the third elusive suspect in the torture death of the Kuwaiti student. shortly before two fellow university students were arrested, said Al Omrani.
Al Omrani said that the Sharjah Public Prosecution has sent a letter to the Foreign Ministry to contact the Kuwaiti consulate in UAE to hand over the third suspect to Sharjah authorities. Interpol has also been requested again to bring him back to the UAE.
Lawyer Saleem Obaid Bin Sahoo, from the UAE, told Gulf News that he had been hired by the family of the victim to get justice.
“The family of the victim wants the killers to be hanged,” Bin Sahoo said. “I will follow up the case with the public prosecution to get more details of the incident,” he said.
“It will take time to complete the process of the interrogation and to transfer the suspects to the court to issue its verdict in the case,” the official said.
Earlier last month, the public prosecution said it had received the forensic laboratory report on Mubarak’s death,
The public prosecutor had told Gulf News then that the forensic investigation revealed evidence of torture that could help solve the case.
The Sharjah Public Prosecution received the forensic report from Abu Dhabi. The report pointed to injuries and bruises on the victim’s body. There were traces of burns and the report suggested that various objects were used to inflict injury.
The report confirmed that there were no signs of toxins or drugs in the victim’s body.
Sharjah Public Prosecution sent the forensic report to the Kuwaiti consulate in Dubai and it has been sent across to authorities in Kuwait.
“Two suspects confessed to their crime before the prosecution and they said that they tortured the victim for three days which makes the case not such a mystery any more. They did not deny what they did,” Al Omrani said.
“The prosecution is still investigating the murder case and will interrogate the witnesses in the case by the beginning of this week,” he said.
The Sharjah Attorney General is currently analysing the video clips found on the cellphones of the suspects besides collecting other evidence such as the phone calls which might help prosecutors shed light on the crime.
By Aghaddir Ali Staff Reporter
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