Sharjah woman ‘chopped boyfriend into pieces’

Yasin Kakande

Last Updated: June 08. 2010 3:44PM UAE / June 8. 2010 11:44AM GMT

SHARJAH // A Bangladeshi woman has confessed to police that she stabbed her boyfriend to death, chopped him into pieces, packed his remains into two suitcases and dumped them in the back of a parked pick-up truck.

Police say the woman, identified as SSR, 30, admitted stabbing Azhar Ali Mohammed, 29, in the neck. When Mohammed died, police said, the woman and a relative identified as J, also from Bangladesh, cut his body into pieces using a machete and drove them to Rolla in the victim’s car after stuffing the mutilated parts of his body into the suitcases.

When they reached their destination, they left the suitcases on a pick-up truck and drove Mohammed’s car to an industrial area, leaving it there, police said.

SSR then went to the Buhaira police station to file a missing persons report on the victim. Police said the couple were not legally married and did not have any children.

The owner of the pick-up fainted on opening one of the cases he found on his vehicle. Bystanders helped him call police, who cordoned off the area and transported the body parts to the police forensic laboratory.

“The owner of the pick-up was first taken to Al Qassimi Hospital and, when he regained his consciousness, was questioned by police,” the forensic report on the incident said. “He was released after police learned he had no involvement in the murder.”

Sharjah Police immediately deployed a team of officers and experts from the Criminal Laboratory. They found that the body parts were covered with pieces of cloth, which were sent to the forensic laboratory in a bid to identify the victim.

The laboratory report revealed that the man was first stabbed with a sharp tool and was then stabbed several times in the abdomen. After he died his head was cut off and other body parts were torn into pieces and put into the two suitcases.

Police were able to identify the remains and linked them to SSR, who had not returned to their apartment in Jamal Abdul Nasser. They arrested her in Al Ghubaiba within 24 hours of the killing and referred her case to Sharjah prosecutors. The suspect faces a death sentence if convicted.

Police were still questioning J, who they said denied any involvement in the crime. He claimed that SSR had called him after packing the body and asked him to help her lift the suitcases, saying they contained clothing.

It is at least the second time a person has been killed and his body disposed of in luggage in Sharjah. The other time involved the German engineer Martin Steiner, who was murdered and whose body was put into a suitcase in 2006. Police arrested Shahid King Bolsten, an American found using Mr Steiner’s credit cards.

Bolsten was sentenced to death by the Sharjah Court of First Instance in October 2007, a verdict he appealed. The appeal court will hear the case on June 16.

The latest incident came a few weeks after Sharjah Police announced that last year they had managed to arrest everyone involved in murder cases within 48 hours of the crime.

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