ABU DHABI // A pair of Bangladeshi men have confessed to choking a Filipina woman to death with a rope.
At the Criminal Court on Sunday, the men admitted they had sex out of wedlock with the woman.
Afterwards, they said, she demanded money from them, said she would call “friends in the police” and accused them of rape.
They said they panicked, so one of them held her still as the other smashed a glass bottle over her head. The pair then tied a rope around her neck and choked her to death.
The judge asked them in court if they committed the crime and they both immediately confessed.
The court adjourned the case until November 17 to appoint a defence lawyer and to try to contact the heirs of the victim.
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