A worker was sentenced to 10 years in jail for killing his former girlfriend after she refused a reconciliation, a Dubai Court of First Instance heard on Tuesday.

The 30-year-old Bangladeshi defendant, had earlier pleaded guilty to premeditated murder after he used a towel to suffocate her. The court additionally sentenced him to an extra six months for robbery and ordered for him to be deported after serving his sentence.

Last November the defendant went to a massage parlour in Karama where he met and had sex with a woman from Bangladesh after she gave him a massage.

“I liked her because she was so beautiful and I told her that I would give her Dh5,000 if she agreed to marry me,” he said. “She said yes and I gave her the money and we exchanged numbers."

“We started chatting on WhatsApp and I was sending her phone credit. Once she wanted Dh2,000 because her mother was sick, so I paid her. Later she blocked me and I couldn’t stay in touch with her,” he added.

He then found out that she had started working in another massage parlour at a hotel in Karama.

He went in as a customer last December and entered the room with the victim.

“I told her that I had come to have sex with her and to restart our relationship, but she refused and insulted me,” he said.

After a heated argument, the defendant knocked her to the ground and suffocated her with a towel.

Dubai Police identified the killer through surveillance cameras and arrested him the next day in a labour camp in Al Muhaisnah.

SOURCE : GULFNEWS