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Bahrain jails dognapper

Manama : The Supreme Appeals Court has upheld the three-year jail sentence issued against a Bahraini man convicted of stealing a dog. 

The theft was reported to police officers by a GCC national woman, who lives in a residential complex. 

According to her, she had asked one of her workers to take her pet dog for a walk. But the worker returned without the pet, and told the woman that two men had stolen the dog. 

“He told me that while he was walking, two men disembarked from a car.  One of them was holding a knife. He told him to give him the dog,” the woman told prosecutors. 

The two reportedly attacked the labourer with a plank when he refused to hand over the dog. According to court files, the woman had published an advertisement about the dog, offering a reward of  BD250 for those who bring the dog back to her. 

Next day, a man approached her with the dog. Police officers later identified the culprits.