UAE: COURT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF PINAY'S RAPIST-KILLERS

May 5, 2012: two Emirati rapist-murderers of a Filipina housemaid in the United Arab Emirates were spared the death penalty after a court commuted their sentences, UAE news site Khaleej Times reported.
While the two had their sentences commuted by the Fujairah Court of Appeal, a third – a minor – reached a reconciliation with the victim's blood heirs.
The three had been tagged in the gang-rape of two Filipina housemaids and the killing of one of them.
Appellate court bench presiding judge Abdullah Al Salami quashed the death penalty of 25-year-old B. H. G. and 21-year-old M. A. and sentenced them to six months in prison each.
He also acquitted 15-year-old A. H., who was the prime accused, after the blood heirs of the maid who was strangled to death after being raped had given up their rights.
The incident happened in A. H.’s house in the Mirbih locality of Fujairah in mid-October 2009. (Sources: GMA News, 05/05/2012)