Students hide friend's body after he dies of drug overdose in Dubai

Three Emirati students were charged on Sunday with hiding the body of their friend who died because of heroin overdose.
Public prosecution records show the three accused - two of them aged 19 and another 18 - drove the Emirati victim's car with his body inside and left it at a remote area in Lahbab on August 31. They also allegedly moved the body to the driver's seat.
The three youths are accused in the Court of First Instance of hiding the deceased's body away from authorities. One of them is charged with using drugs and the 18-year-old is accused of injecting the victim with heroin.
A police lieutenant told the prosecutor that after the victim was reported missing by his family, the police began investigating. "We contacted two of the defendants who were his close friends but they denied knowing his whereabouts.
"However, one of them shortly called to say he was aware of what happened to his friend and how he died."
The lieutenant added: "The 19-year-old accused said he got a call from the 18-year-old accomplice around 10pm telling him about their friend's death. He went to Al Warqa and found the victim dead in his car. He learned he died of drug overdose. They waited for the other accused till 2am. They decided to drive the victim's body to Lahbab area and leave his car hidden in an off-road location."
The 18-year-old defendant cleaned the victim's car of the drug needles and took his mobile phone and disposed it off.
However, that accused claimed to interrogators the victim was already unwell when he met him around noon on the fateful day. He denied having helped him use drugs or given him any shots.
The other two defendants confessed that the 18-year-old injected the victim with heroin because he was experienced, unlike the victim. They said their friend tried to resuscitate the victim when he found him unresponsive, but in vain.

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