First Lt. Nawaf Al-Bouq, acting spokesman for Jeddah police, said police received reports from local residents that a body had been found in a narrow alley. The man had been stabbed multiple times.
“Police and forensic experts cordoned off the location to collect evidence. The man’s attacker was subsequently arrested,” Al-Bouq said.
Explaining the circumstances of the crime, he said the two men had been drinking alcohol at the Somali’s residence. “After getting drunk, the Sudanese tried to assault his friend’s wife,” he said.
In the ensuing quarrel, the Somali stabbed the Sudanese and fled the scene along with his wife, he added.
Meanwhile, Jeddah police arrested a Palestinian national suspected in the murder of a former cop in the city within 24 hours after the gruesome crime.
According to a report in Sunday’s Al-Madinah newspaper, the 40-year-old Saudi man was found killed at his house in Al-Rabwa district on Friday.
The suspect, who is in his 20s, has confessed to killing the former police man in a fit of anger following a dispute and hot exchange of words between them.
When the victim’s father failed in his attempts to contact him on mobile phone, the man went to his son’s home to see him dead, lying in a pool of blood. His throat was slit and there were 26 knife wounds on his body.
On receiving a call from the ex-cop’s father, police rushed to the scene and started investigation.
The criminal investigation team had interrogated several people who have close relations and friendship with the victim.
After getting information about the Palestinian man’s association with the victim, police took him into custody. When he denied any contacts with the victim, police showed him evidence that he was one among those contacted him before being killed.
Then the Palestinian confessed to the crime. The culprit paid a friendly visit to the victim’s house and after sometime a dispute broke out between them.
In a fit of anger, he attacked him with a kitchen knife.
The Palestinian confessed to knifing the Saudi down with several strikes. He then left the home, but the police did not give him time to execute his planned escape from Jeddah, according to police sources.
The Jeddah police chief commended his officers for removing the mystery around the horrific murder of a former colleague and arresting the culprit within a short span of time.
