Man arrested for knife murder 10 years ago after returning to UAE

Indian man returned to the country and started asking questions about the victim, which caught cops' attention.

SHARJAH // An Indian man was arrested for allegedly stabbing an Arab man 15 times before slitting his throat in a murder 10 years ago.

Sharjah Police said the 35-year-old, who was said to have fled the country after the crime in 2007, was arrested after he returned to the UAE and started asking questions about the victim.

The victim was aged 33 and lived alone in an apartment in Al Hazanah, where the suspect was working illegally as a watchman in the high-rise.

At the time, police were tipped off about the murder when the victim’s brother said his sibling was missing and was not responding to phone calls.

Col Mohammed Al Bayyat, director of police operations in Sharjah, said officers and the forensic labs found only one fingerprint at the scene and a shoe as evidence.

“There was no evidence linking the watchman to the victim, but the Indian man came back to the country and started asking questions about the victim, which got our attention,” he said.

CID officers tracked down the watchman and questioned him.

“He confessed to killing the victim. He said that he befriended the victim and visited him in his apartment a few times. But a financial dispute between them made the Indian man stab him with a knife 15 times, before he slit his throat,” said Col Al Bayyat.

The Indian was referred to prosecutors to face trial.