Crime News

Dubai murder suspects 'hiding in Israel'

Mahmud al-Mabhuh, a founder of the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, was found dead in his Dubai hotel room on January 20. Police said he had been drugged then suffocated.

"I am sure that all the suspects are in Israel," police chief Dahi Khalfan told a media conference in the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi.

"If they stay in Israel, they won't be arrested, but eventually if they leave they will be arrested," the police chief added, referring to a list of suspects passed on to Interpol.

Twelve British, six Irish, four French, three Australian and one German passports were used by 26 named suspects, according to Dubai police, who say they fled the emirate on flights to Europe and Asia.

Robbers leave wounded partner to die

A fatally wounded robber was abandoned by his accomplices after they pushed him from their getaway car while fleeing from a Pretoria business which they had robbed.

The gang of three, who were armed with a toy gun, were in the process of robbing a printing business in Menlo Park on Friday night when they were surprised by one of the employees, who lives on the premises.

As the man, who was at 10th Street premises in Menlo Park with three of his colleagues, went to investigate a noise he came across the suspects stealing computer equipment.

Police said the suspects fled from the house with their loot and sped off in their getaway car which was waiting outside the business.

Police spokesperson, Captain Colette Weilbach said as the robber's getaway driver drove off the car was suddenly stopped and the wounded suspect was pushed out of the vehicle. "The suspects then drove off leaving their fatally wounded accomplice behind," she said, adding that the man died in the street.

Weilbach said the dead suspect's accomplices escaped with several pieces of computer equipment.

She said police, who were investigating a business robbery case, found a 9mm toy gun inside the house, which one of the suspects was believed to have left behind when they escaped.