Duo beat up Dubai man over family dispute

Two brothers in the UAE have admitted to the police that they beat up and kidnapped an Emirati relative over some previous family issues.

According to public prosecution records, the two Pakistanis, aged 38 and 32, went to the victim's house in Al Nahda and stalked him until he went out to his car around 4am on March 15.

Both were charged in the Court of First Instance with kidnap with the use of force and death threats.

"I was walking to my car in the parking lot of the building when two men attacked me all of a sudden in the dark. They beat me up all over using an iron bar," the 33-year-old Emirati victim said.

"When I tried to fight them back, I was hit with a sword and got injured in the leg. I fell down while they kept beating me. I screamed but none was around."

They snatched his mobile phone and car keys and forced him inside their car.

"I was gagged and tied up in the back seat. I heard them talking about stopping at a fuel station where one of them put on a jacket as his clothes were covered blood. He bought juice and a new adhesive tape."

The victim added: "They drove towards Al Rashidiya. I heard them saying they would kill me and drop my body in the desert and then turn themselves in to the police."

They stopped at their place where they changed their clothes before parking the car, in which I was tied up, in a yard away from residential buildings. They drove away in another car leaving me there to suffocate in the vehicle. Eventually, I could open the door and scream for help."

The police arrived shortly later. He told them that the two men were then leaving the UAE through the airport.

The victim said that the pair held him up for about two hours and 40 minutes and that the attack left him with multiple fractures in the right leg, right hand and a broken nose in addition to face, head and ear injuries.

"By the time I arrived to the place where the car was left the victim was taken to hospital. Before he underwent a surgery I could talk to him briefly about the incident. We arrested the two men at the Dubai International Airport. One of them was about to take a flight to the UK while the other's destination was Pakistan. They admitted willingly that old family disputes were behind the attack," a police lieutenant said.

The duo told the investigators they had stalked the victim as one of them was aware of the time he usually went to work.

Source: Khaleej Times