KUWAIT CITY // A court has sentenced a Kuwaiti couple to death for beating and then murdering their Filipina domestic helper, newspapers in the Gulf state reported today.
The criminal court found the disabled husband and his wife guilty of "premeditated murder" after throwing the maid from their car and driving over her, Al Rai and Al Anbaa daily newspapers reported, citing the verdict.
No names were published in the reports, for the couple or the maid.
Newspapers said that based on testimony by one of the couple's sons, the wife beat the maid for days until her health deteriorated.
The son told interrogators that his parents had said they were taking the maid to hospital for treatment, but he never saw her again.
According to the ruling, the couple took the maid, who was "unconscious" at the time, to a remote area in the desert where they threw her from the back seat of the car and then drove over her until she died.
An estimated 73,000 Filipinos - 60,000 of them women working mostly as maids - live in Kuwait, where some 600,000 domestic helpers, mostly south-east Asians, are employed.
Source: Agence France-Presse, Feb. 20, 2012
Couple sentenced to death for murdering helper
Manama: A Kuwaiti court on Sunday sentenced a Kuwaiti couple to death for the premeditated murder of their Asian domestic helper.
According to the court papers, the wife maltreated and punished the helper, thought to be a Filipina, daily with the knowledge of her husband.
However, when the couple feared that they would be reported to the police after a particularly severe beating, they took her unconscious in their car to an isolated area near a horse stable where they dumped her body. Then, they drove over her.
During the investigations, one of the couple's sons said that his mother often beat the helper and that the last time he saw her she was in terrible condition. The helper complained of abdomen pains, he said.
The son said that his parents at around 2am drove the helper reportedly to hospital, Al Aan site news said.
According to the ruling, the pair will be hanged to death.
The court said that the couple would have to pay a 5,001 Kuwaiti Dinars fine for the victim's family.
Initial reactions by the news site users supported the death penalty.
Source: Gulf News, February 20, 2012
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