Dubai: Mother gets 5 year sentence after trying to kill her children, attempting suicide

Dubai Criminal Court has sentenced a 24-year-old mother to five years in prison and deportation from the country for attempting to commit suicide by slitting her wrists with a knife after a failed attempt to kill her two young sons.

The accused’s husband, who is the father of the two children stated in case papers that when he returned from work, his wife did not open the door for him, so he had to use his extra key to enter the apartment. He was then surprised by the mother lying on the ground, soaked in blood. After trying to suffocate her children with a pillow. The husband immediately contacted his brother to help him take the accused and the victims to the hospital.