Bahrain court acquits woman accused of killing boyfriend with a plate

TDT | Manama

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An Arab woman, accused of hitting and killing her boyfriend with a plate, had her charges annulled by the High Appeal Court. The court dropped the manslaughter charges levelled against her by the Prosecution following a trial.

The suspect’s clean background and absence of any prior litigation between the victim and the suspect influenced the decision. Court files say the suspect allegedly hit the victim with a plate following an altercation.

The man survived the attack but suffered injuries. Hospital records show a bacterial infection of a wound caused by the attack led to his demise.

Records also say the woman, in his thirties, herself took the man, in his sixties, to the hospital. The man, hospital records said, reached there in an unconscious state with his eyes badly swollen.

When asked by doctors about the man’s condition, the woman told them that he slipped and fell at the toilet. However, the man later told police that he got injured from a plate thrown forcefully at his face by the woman.

Though doctors kept him in intensive care, the man succumbed to his injuries in a few days. Later, the victim’s brother told prosecutors that this wasn’t the first time that the woman had attacked him.

“My brother’s girlfriend would always physically assault him, and this wasn’t the first time,” he said. The woman, however, rejected the allegations and said the victim was her sponsor and that she was staying with him as requested by him.

She told prosecutors that she landed in Bahrain three years ago and worked as a receptionist at a hotel before moving to another job as an accountant.