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30-04-2006, 09:16
Jail, Deportation for Homesick Arsonist
Arab News
JEDDAH, 30 April 2006 — A court in the Makkah region has handed a two-month jail term and deportation to a homesick housemaid who set fire to her sponsor’s house, a local Arabic newspaper reported yesterday.
“It was just luck that my nine-member family was spared a tragic end. The maid’s criminal act has incurred me losses worth several thousands of riyals as the fire destroyed all the furniture and other valuables in the house,” Al-Madinah newspaper quoted the sponsor, Muhammad Uthman Muqalliah, as saying.
“The maid was new in the Kingdom. The labor supplier sent her to us as we have been waiting for a maid for several months. Two days after she came to us she began to threaten us with setting fire to the house unless she was send back to her home. I did not want any discontent or unhappy worker in my house. So I took her to the labor supplier and demanded a replacement. The labor supplier talked with her for some time and persuaded her to return with me. In the afternoon we returned home. She looked normal and did not express any reluctance to come with me. It was past midnight when we were awakened from sleep as we were all choking and feeling terribly hot. Children were crying aloud as we were almost engulfed by flames. It was the Civil Defense who saved us from being roasted alive.”
Police arrested the maid though she denied the charge of setting fire to the house. But the circumstantial evidence was against her. She allegedly had threatened to set the house on fire before.
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Arab News
JEDDAH, 30 April 2006 — A court in the Makkah region has handed a two-month jail term and deportation to a homesick housemaid who set fire to her sponsor’s house, a local Arabic newspaper reported yesterday.
“It was just luck that my nine-member family was spared a tragic end. The maid’s criminal act has incurred me losses worth several thousands of riyals as the fire destroyed all the furniture and other valuables in the house,” Al-Madinah newspaper quoted the sponsor, Muhammad Uthman Muqalliah, as saying.
“The maid was new in the Kingdom. The labor supplier sent her to us as we have been waiting for a maid for several months. Two days after she came to us she began to threaten us with setting fire to the house unless she was send back to her home. I did not want any discontent or unhappy worker in my house. So I took her to the labor supplier and demanded a replacement. The labor supplier talked with her for some time and persuaded her to return with me. In the afternoon we returned home. She looked normal and did not express any reluctance to come with me. It was past midnight when we were awakened from sleep as we were all choking and feeling terribly hot. Children were crying aloud as we were almost engulfed by flames. It was the Civil Defense who saved us from being roasted alive.”
Police arrested the maid though she denied the charge of setting fire to the house. But the circumstantial evidence was against her. She allegedly had threatened to set the house on fire before.
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