Pakistani jobless man stood trial on Sunday in the Court of First Instance on the charge of sheltering three men involved in cases of murder and attempted murder, which were being heard by Ajman Courts. The 30-year-old defendant is believed to have let the alleged criminals hide at his place. He is also accused of helping them to try to flee the country through Al Bureimi exit.He is also on trial for the offence of not reporting about the alleged ‘murderers’. The 41-year-old driver, who survived the knife attack by the trio, told the prosecutor that he shared the same room with the person who was killed by the accused. He said that on February 3, 2010, he was up with another roommate until about 11.30pm while the victim was outside. They woke up a little later hearing screams. He saw the victim being stabbed by someone with a knife. He tried to stop the attacker from further stabbing his roommate by holding his hand but got stabbed himself and collapsed. Another Pakistani man testified during the investigation that he saw the victim lying in a pool of blood that night and workers gathering around him. He also saw the driver sitting on a chair with his hand on his stomach, which was bleeding. He said that he knew that a group of four men, including the trio and one runaway, came and attacked the two men with knives. They had their faces covered. The driver’s roommate, a cashier, testified that he was threatened by one of the attackers that night with a cleaver. The attackers’ roommate, a Pakistani national, told the prosecutor that he heard them talking about killing someone with a knife one night. One of them also woke him up at a very late hour and asked him for Dh100. Two of the attackers admitted during the investigation that the jobless on trial had offered them shelter and helped them to try flee through Al Bureimi exit. But they could not do it because of the continuous traffic there.
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