Death sentence for man who murdered boy on Abu Dhabi rooftop !!!

A man who raped and strangled an 11-year-old boy on the roof of an apartment building in Abu Dhabi was sentenced to death by the criminal court on Monday.

Athan Janjua was returning from the mosque across the street after performing afternoon prayers and Quran recitation when he was assaulted and murdered by the middle-aged Pakistani defendant.

The man disguised himself as a woman by wearing an abaya and lured the boy, who is his sister’s stepson, to the rooftop of the Abu Dhabi apartment where Athan lived with his family.

There the defendant tried to rape him but the boy resisted and begged his attacker to respect the copy of the Quran lying next to him, prosecutors said based on the defendant’s earlier confessions.

When Athan continued to resist, he strangled him with the laundry rope.

Both public prosecution and the boy’s Russian mother and Pakistani father insisted on the death sentence against Athan’s killer.

Dr. Majed Janjua, Athan’s father, said he was satisfied with the verdict and was looking forward to the execution.

“Of course we are a bit relieved of the decision,” he said, “but he (the defendant) is still breathing, so as long as he is breathing it is hard for us.”

By law, any death sentence has to go through the Court of Appeal and Cassation Court before the sentence can be carried out.

“I don’t know how long it will take, by law they have to go through these steps, but I am waiting for the day they will execute him and I will be there,” Dr. Janjua said.

Throughout court proceedings, the defendant continually denied committing the crime.

A sanity test requested by his appointed lawyer Hassan Al Riyami, showed that he was the sound of mind and responsible for his actions.

Prosecutors insisted throughout the trial that they had enough evidence against the defendant and CCTV footage that showed him walking and out of the building before and after the crime.

They previously described the defendant as a “human-wolf”, saying he committed a terrible crime and betrayed the victim’s father, who had helped the man to find a job in the UAE at an air-conditioning company.