Dubai carpenter's 4.78 g marijuana sentence raised to life on appeal
The Court of Appeal on 30 September 2015 raised the sentence of Bangladeshi carpenter M R, 22, from four years plus deportation to life imprisonment, deemed 25 years, for possessing 4.78 grams of marijuana to sell. He had been caught in an undercover sting in Al Murar in June 2014.
Dubai Police’s anti-narcotics department, tipped off about the carpenter,
assigned an undercover source to pose as a buyer.[1]The two agreed to meet
in Al Murar, and when M R handed the drugs to the source at the surrounded
meeting point on 20 June 2014, officers arrested him immediately; he denied
knowing what he had handed over, saying a man had asked him to make the
delivery and return with the cash.[1]
At the criminal court in October 2014 the 22-year-old Bangladeshi denied
possessing 4.78 grams of marijuana to sell and was sentenced to four years in
prison plus deportation.[1]Prosecutorsappealed, and on 30 September 2015
the Court of Appeal raised the term to life imprisonment, which the report
equates to 25 years.[1]
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