Wadeema case adjourned to April 28

Hamad, an ex-security supervisor is on a death row for torturing to death his eight-year-old daughter, Wadeema. He earlier told the court that his conviction lacked ‘concrete evidence’.

He denied the charges of torturing and illegally confining and depriving his two daughters, 8 and 7, of their freedom with the use of force, which led to the death of the eldest and the permanent injury of Mira. Hamad admitted, however, that he hid Wadeema’s body by burying it in a remote desert location in Al Badayer in Sharjah without proper official authorisation.

He claimed that the investigators did not take his brother’s testimony into consideration in addition to other facts which proved that he loved and treated his two daughters well.

Hamad claimed he did not inflict the injuries and burns on the body of his daughter Mira blaming a housemaid for some of them and the hospital where she was admitted later for shortcomings in treatment.

He also said that his accomplice, 27-year-old compatriot girlfriend, Al Anoud A., who had earlier pleaded guilty and was sentenced later to life in prison by the Court of First Instance for the same charges, gave confession under pregnancy stress.

The initial verdict convicted the accused Hamad and gave him capital punishment for torturing mentally and physically the two daughters for around six months by depriving them of their simple rights of food and clothing and imprisoning them in Hamad ’s rented flat at International City.

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