Couple admits murder of maid after two months – Body buried in desert
KUWAIT: A Farwaniya couple admitted that they killed their housemaid and buried her body in the desert two months ago, local dailies reported yesterday. The actual motives behind the murder remain unknown as the couple only confessed that the worker was 'beaten to death' by her female employer.
The case was discovered late Saturday night when a Kuwaiti man approached Fahaheel police station officers and said that his wife killed their Asian maid inside their Farwaniya apartment in September before they buried her in an open space at the Jahra desert near the Seventh Ring Road. The case was handed over to Farwaniya police station officers "where the man met Farwaniya Investigations Department Director Col Mansour Al-Hajri and his Deputy Lt Co Hamad Al-Ajmi", according to a security source quoted by Al-Rai daily yes- terday. The two officials then notified the Interior Ministry's Assistant Undersecretary for Criminal Investigation Maj Gen Abdulhameed Al-Awadhi and General Director of the Criminal Investigations Department, Brig Gen Mahmoud Al- Tabbakh about the case.
According to the source who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the two senior officials gave instructions to form a security team including crime scene investigators to follow up with the case.
The team headed with the man to the place where the victim was buried, while another team went after his wife with an arrest warrant. The source added that the investigators could not find the body at first, whereas the man's wife denied her husband's accounts categorically. She brought to police's attention that she had reported her maid missing at similar time to the one her husband said the crime was committed.
The husband later told police that the murder story was fabricated, and that he pressed false charges against his wife 'in revenge' following a domestic dispute. "The investigators were not convinced, and decided to go on with their investigation and summon the building's keeper for questioning", the source said.
He added that the keeper revealed that he saw the couple carrying a 'large box' out of their apartment at night two months ago. "Based on those testimonies, the criminal investigators went back to the supposed burial site; this time with sniffer dogs, and were able to find the grave", the source said. The man later confessed that his wife used a club to beat the maid up until the victim collapsed.
They put her body in a box after confirming that she was dead, then buried her in the desert. Al-Watan daily reported the story yesterday and identified the husband as a 41- year-old unemployed Kuwaiti man and his wife as a 27-year-old bedoon (stateless resident), also unemployed.
They refrained from providing more information about the housemaid other than what was mentioned in Al-Rai's report. Al-Watan quoted a source with knowledge of the investigation, who indicated that the husband cited 'feeling of guilt' in addition to the recent discovery of a dead body in Doha desert as the reason he decided to reveal the crime. The source who also requested anonymity to speak gave more details about the murder day. "The man said that he rushed back home after his wife called, and found his maid in a terrible condition and bleeding. He added that the maid soon died after his wife prevented him from taking her to the hospital", the source said. The two are held at the Public Prosecution pending legal action.
The Interior Ministry declined to comment on the case when contacted for a statement yesterday. Stories about physical, verbal and sexual abuse of housemaids are reported frequently in Kuwait where more than 800,000 domestic helpers work in houses, apartments and private properties. Last year, the criminal court sentenced a Kuwaiti couple to death for the premeditated murder of their Asian domestic helper.
The country's sponsorship system, which organizes the local labor market, lacks sufficient regulations to regulate domestic workers' affairs, and has been under fire for the past few years for failure to guarantee maids' basic rights. A maid's job requires staying at her employer's house for most of the day, making those more susceptible to forced labor and abuse compared to other workers
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