Man threatens mom with gas cylinder blast

Hamza M Sengendo, Staff Reporter

A man who threatened to blow up his mother’s villa after she told his visiting friend to leave must be deported, the Dubai Criminal Court decided on Thursday.

The unemployed Arab defendant, 32, brandished and threatened to detonate a gas cylinder inside his mother’s villa. He smashed windows of both his sister’s Hyundai and BMW car. He stole the sister’s Dhs23,000.

He threatened to blow up the villa in case the mother or anyone of the family members contacted the police. The mother sought police help. Rashidiyah Police Station cops nabbed him, prosecutors told the jury.

“We disputed and I threatened her. I was extremely angry. I am sorry,” he expressed remorse in court. Records showed he smashed his sister’s safe and snatched the money. In court, he denied having stolen the money.

However, he admitted to have hammered her cars’ windows. He presented a waiver from his mother.

 The Dubai Criminal Court sentenced him to a suspended three-month prison term and ordered that he be deported.

On the record, the mother – an Emirati housewife, 55 – complained that she was inside the villa at around 12pm on April 21 when the defendant returned home with his friend. After a while, she asked the friend to leave.

The defendant strode out in a fit of rage. He smashed the windshields of both cars. He carried the gas cylinder and vowed to detonate it inside the villa. The fear-stricken mother and family members rushed outside.

They did not return home until the next morning. They found the villa’s gate and main door were left open.

They went to the bedroom she shared with her daughter and found its contents scattered and a safe smashed.

Some Dhs23,000 of the total Dhs45,000 her daughter kept in the safe was missing. The mother contacted the police. Policemen detained him, frisked him and found him with the stolen money. He acknowledged the theft.