DUBAI // A labourer who murdered a prostitute in a dispute over Dh50 was jailed for life at Dubai Criminal Court on Tuesday.
The badly decomposed body of the prostitute, whose identity is unknown, was found by police at an abandoned house in Al Mankhool on May 24, 2012, after a tip-off.
Her body was lying on a couch and covered by a wooden bar and it had become so decomposed that only her skull and arm bones were showing.
M K, 27, from Bangladesh, was linked to the crime scene by DNA traces left on a cigarette.
The court heard that M K said he had strangled her with a shayla after paying her only half of the Dh100 fee she demanded for having sex with him.
Forensic experts, who believe the woman must have died months before her body was discovered, matched traces of DNA found on a discarded cigarette butt found beside the body to the labourer.
The killer claimed the prostitute had threatened to send a number of men to beat him up.
A police officer J A, 24, said the labourer admitted he then strangled her.
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