Court upholds death sentence of murderer
The Appeal Court in Sharjah on Sunday upheld the death sentence against an American who murdered a German engineer last year, a legal source told Gulf News.
The court rejected the plea of Shahid Poliss King and confirmed the death sentence against him for killing Martin Herbert Steiner by suffocating him, stuffing the body in a suitcase and dumping it in the desert.
A court source told Gulf News Poliss, in his mid-30s, was sentenced to death while his Ethiopian partner, Fawzia Nigash Yousuf, was convicted of aiding and abetting the crime, theft and having an illicit affair.
Steiner, a 48-year-old German businessman, had been reported missing and his decomposed body was found 15 days later by police off the Dubai-Hatta Road.
Poliss, an American Muslim, entered the country on a visit visa using a forged British passport, according to sources.
Sources said he shaved his beard and posed as a gay on a website. Fawzia had contacted Poliss after reading a newspaper advertisement for a housemaid.
Poliss convinced Fawzia to offer sexual services to customers, and it was alleged the money received was to be used on the Al Qaida terror network.
Police reportedly found CDs at Poliss's house on how to make poisonous chemical substances and drugs. They also found pictures of girls aged less than eight sitting on his bed.
The Ethiopian woman got three years in prison followed by deportation. (Gulf News)
The court rejected the plea of Shahid Poliss King and confirmed the death sentence against him for killing Martin Herbert Steiner by suffocating him, stuffing the body in a suitcase and dumping it in the desert.
A court source told Gulf News Poliss, in his mid-30s, was sentenced to death while his Ethiopian partner, Fawzia Nigash Yousuf, was convicted of aiding and abetting the crime, theft and having an illicit affair.
Steiner, a 48-year-old German businessman, had been reported missing and his decomposed body was found 15 days later by police off the Dubai-Hatta Road.
Poliss, an American Muslim, entered the country on a visit visa using a forged British passport, according to sources.
Sources said he shaved his beard and posed as a gay on a website. Fawzia had contacted Poliss after reading a newspaper advertisement for a housemaid.
Poliss convinced Fawzia to offer sexual services to customers, and it was alleged the money received was to be used on the Al Qaida terror network.
Police reportedly found CDs at Poliss's house on how to make poisonous chemical substances and drugs. They also found pictures of girls aged less than eight sitting on his bed.
The Ethiopian woman got three years in prison followed by deportation. (Gulf News)
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