Obaida Sedqi, a Jordanian was kidnapped, raped and murdered in May 2016. The final verdict of the case has been released today, the 24th of November 2017.
Nidal Eisa Abdullah, the convict who raped and killed eight-year-old boy Obaida in May 2016, was executed today morning.
In February, Dubai’s Cassation Court rejected the appeal lodged by the Jordanian convict, Nidal Eisa Abdullah, 48, 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 confirmed.
When contacted for further confirmation, the convict’s court-appointed lawyer Ali Musabbah Dahi, who represented Abdullah before the Courts of Cassation and Appeal, also confirmed that the sentence has been carried out.
The Cassation Court had convicted Abdullah of kidnapping the Jordanian boy Obaida Sedqi from his father’s auto repair shop in Sharjah on May 20 of last year and driving him to Al Mamzar beachside where he raped him and then strangled him with a red ghutra to death 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.
Musabeh pleaded earlier for the court to exert leniency towards his client on the grounds that he was showing regret over what he did. He said his client was under the influence of alcohol and could not recall what happened that night. He also cited his client’s claims of being rejected by his own family which contributed to his alcohol abuse, as the accused claimed.
A psychiatric report concluded Abdullah was mentally stable and sane and thus could be held responsible for his actions and behavior.
The court ruling states that the convict’s body be repatriated to his home country after the execution.
A death penalty ruling that comes out of the Dubai Court of Cassation, has to be approved by the Dubai Ruler before it can be executed, as per article 67 of the UAE Federal Penal Code.
Convicts sentenced to death are executed in Dubai by a firing squad.
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