Kuwait’s Cassation Court on Thursday, September 17 upheld a death
sentence for an Ethiopian maid for killing a Kuwaiti teenager.
22-year-old
Rabiya Mahmoud was sentenced to death in November. The court sentenced
her to death by hanging after she admitted to the public prosecution
that she killed Siham Humood Flaitah Al Shemmari, 19, while the family
members were resting after hosting a dinner reception celebrate the
graduation of a relative.
According to reports on
the case, Rabiya
confessed that in March 2014 she took a knife and walked into the
victim’s bedroom where she stabbed her in the chest. The victim survived
the first stabs and pleaded for her life; however, Rabiya refused and
stabbed her again until she died.
She then fled the house, but later headed to the Sulaibikhat police station and turned herself in at 5:45 am. She
told officers that she stabbed the victim who was asleep, then locked
her inside the room before leaving her employer’s house. She cited
conflicts with the victim as the reason, and said that she had planned
the murder days earlier and that her plans had been delayed because of the presence of the victim’s younger sister.
The
police said that officers responded to an emergency call reporting that
a door was locked in a Sulaibikhat house with a girl inside.
Firefighters broke the door open and found the girl bleeding profusely.
She was rushed to the hospital but doctors pronounced her dead on
arrival. The medical report said the death was caused by four stab
wounds — two in the chest and two in the abdominal area.
Investigators confirmed that Rabiya killed the young girl after they found her fingerprints on the knife used in the crime.
Siham was a freshman at Kuwait University’s Faculty of Arts when she was killed. Her father, Humood, was a member of Kuwait’s national team that participated in the 1982 Fifa World. Cup.
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