Abu Dhabi - UAE's Al Dhafra Criminal Court handed down the death penalty for a man who murdered his colleague for having an affair with his fiancée.
The accused and two accomplices planned the murder of their co-worker, they took him out to sea and left him to drown.
The victim did not how to swim and the suspects arranged the murder to look like an accident.
Police received a report of a drowned Asian man, the suspects were detained after the police investigation.
Two of the suspects maintained that the death was an accident, but confessed to the premeditated murder when the third suspect broke down and confessed.
The suspects stated that they were unaware that the punishment for murder in the UAE is the death penalty, as they expected jail time and deportation as a maximum punishment for their crime.
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