Jilted maid jailed for knifing Lankan cleaner

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DUBAI: A jilted maid implicated in knifing a female cleaner who had reportedly taken her boyfriend, was sentenced a 7-year-jail term plus deportation, on Monday.

The Nepalese maid (28) attempted to kill the Sri Lankan cleaner (32) with a kitchen knife inside a building in Silicon Oasis at around 5:30pm on April 2 last year, the Dubai Criminal Court learned.

A fugitive Sri Lankan nanny called N helped maid in the murder attempt as she sprayed chili powder in Lankan cleaner’s eyes and gagged her while maid dragged her by the hair and knifed her in the head, chest, stomach and right arm. (Source: The Gulf Today)

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