A
couple have been arrested on suspicion of murdering their domestic
helper and throwing her body in the desert.
Col
Rashid Mohammed Bourshid, the head of Abu Dhabi Police CID, said the
body of a woman was found in Ajban wrapped in cloth and with burnt
fingers.
Investigations
revealed that the victim was an Ethiopian housemaid, who was staying
illegally in the country, and the main suspect was an Arab, M A,
who worked for a contracting company and who was arrested hours after
the body was found, Col Bourshid said.
He
said that the suspect initially denied being involved in her death
but confessed after evidence allegedly showed that his wife, R Y,
had murdered the Ethiopian after a dispute at the family house in
Khalifa City.
The
suspect admitted that his wife battered the victim with a thick baton
on several parts of her body until she died. He then stripped the
body and poured a corrosive substance over it in an attempt to make
the body unidentifiable. He wrapped it in a piece of cloth, put it
inside a bag and carried it to his car and the couple abandoned the
body in the desert.
Col
Bourshid said the wife was arrested at a hotel and admitted her role
in the crime. After their arrest, one of the couple’s children, 2,
was sent to the community support center while the other, 8 months,
stayed with the mother in jail.
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