Dubai: Nidal Eisa Abdullah, the convict who raped and killed an eight-year-old boy in May 2016, was executed this morning, according to a report in Gulf News.
In February, Dubai’s Cassation Court rejected the appeal lodged by the 48-year-old Jordanian convict and upheld his death sentence given by lower courts.
“Today (Thursday) morning, the convict was taken from his confinement at Dubai Central Jail, where he had been waiting for the rulers approval to have the death sentence executed ... a special execution team carried out the sentence in the presence of high ranking officers, senior prosecutors and other involved law enforcement bodies. Justice has been served and the ruling was carried out,” a chief prosecutor said on Thursday morning.
Abdullah was convicted of kidnapping the Jordanian boy Obaida Sedqi from his father’s auto repair shop in Sharjah on May 20 of last year. He then drove him to Al Mamzar beach where he raped then and strangled him to death with a red ghutra, in his car.
The convict, who was under the influence of alcohol, then took Obaida’s body and threw it under a tree in the outskirts of Dubai.
During his trial, the convict pleaded not guilty to the charges.