DUBAI: An appeals court in the United Arab Emirates acquitted a maid from the Philippines of the murder of her employer and scrapped her death sentence, the Philippines Foreign Ministry and UAE media said on Tuesday. The maid, 30, was sentenced to death by a lower tribunal in the city of al-Ain in May 2015 for fatally stabbing her Emirati employer in 2014, UAE-based newspaper The National said. She had argued she was acting in self defence after he tried to rape her, the foreign ministry said in a statement. An appeals court in al-Ain on Monday overturned the verdict, convicted her only of stealing a mobile telephone and handed her a five-year jail term, the statement said, identifying her as Jennifer Dalquez.
06-21-2017, 06:38 AM
UAE court scraps death sentence for Filipina maid
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