By Staff

The father of a man who tortured his eight-year-old daughter to death with a hot iron in Dubai demanded his execution, saying he does not deserve any mercy because of the hideousness of his crime.

The father said he and all his family have disowned his son, Hamad Saud, 27, for murdering his daughter with the assistance of his girl friend under the influence of alcohol and drugs before shaving her head off and burying her in the desert.

“It is a heinous crime…..they tortured my granddaughter with a hot iron and forced her to eat her own waste and discharge….they had also beaten her up regularly before death…..we can not forgive him and insist on his execution and the death of his girl friend who helped him in this ugly crime,” he told the Dubai-based Emirat Alyoum Arabic language daily.

The defendant was arrested by Dubai’s police within 48 hours after he murdered his daughter and buried her in Alfaya desert area, according to Dubai police commander Lt General Dahi Khalfan Tamim.

The paper said the girl’s younger sister, aged 7, had also been beaten and tortured and was in a very bad condition when she was found alone at the house by the defendant’s elder brother.

It said the man had called his brother’s house to say hello and was told by his girl friend he was not there and that his two daughters were at their mum’s house.

“I did not believe her and told her that I was on my way from Abu Dhabi to see them…when I arrived, I heard the little girl crying and she told me that she was on her own and the door was locked…when I saw her after I stormed into the flat, I nearly collapsed…she looked in a very bad shape and had bruises all over her body…the smell inside the apartment was also intolerable,” he said.

“When I asked her what happened, she shocked me when she said her father beat her up many times and that her sister died under torture…I first did not believe her and went straight to her mum who told me she had not seen her daughters for several months…I later learned that my brother and his girl friend had been arrested…they at first denied the charge but later collapsed and confessed to the murder and led the police to where they buried the girl…her body was wrapped by a scarf her head had been shaved off before her death.”

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