Inmate with Aids dripped infected blood into tea pot, Dubai court hears

The inmate cut himself in the arm and dripped infected blood into a teapot used by other prisoners, the court heard.

DUBAI // A prison inmate with Aids cut himself and dripped blood into a tea pot used by other prisoners, a court heard.

M B H, a Bangladeshi waiter, said he was distributing food to prisoners on August 31.

“When I arrived at the defendant’s cell he asked me to call a police guard. Then he threatened to have me assaulted if I did not, so I went,” said M B H, 28.

When the waiter returned, the defendant had pulled the food carriage near his cell and saw him dripping blood into the tea pot after cutting himself in the arm.

The police officer W H, 21, said when he arrived he saw the food carriage tied to the defendant’s cell bars with a rope made of bedsheets.

“He was threatening that he would spray the food with his blood. Then he started dripping his blood into the tea pot,” the policeman said. He said the defendant also threatened to commit suicide.

“I asked him what he wanted. He said his issue was not with me but with the officer on duty,” the policeman said.

Emirati H M, 20, denied a charge of threatening and endangering the lives of others by dripping his infected blood into a tea pot.

“How could I have done that when I was in solitary confinement?” the man asked at Dubai Criminal Court on Sunday.

The verdict is expected on January 12.